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Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.ossi.com!pagesat.net!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: HP Omnibook 5000? Message-ID: <niPvLLF@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 16:22:01 UTC Lines: 44 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.laptops:57023 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15118 Does anyone know anything about the Omnibook 5000? Specifically, I would want to run FreeBSD on it, so the hardware and BIOS need to be as standards-compliant as possible. What video chipset does it use (for the 800x600 model, if it matters)? Does it use the Intel or an Intel compatable PCMCIA chipset? What is the slot arrangement? 2xII-or-1xIII, 2xIII or something else? Can you close the lid without it suspending? What other features does the BIOS have? Is it an Award, Phoenix or AMI BIOS (perhaps in disguise)? Is it relatively easy to swap hard disks? Might it be possible to arrange for multiple hard drives and field-swap them easily (this is a feature I value highly in my current laptop)? I take it it takes 2.5" SCSI drives internally? Speaking of SCSI, what kind of SCSI does it have? AHA-2940 compatable (aic-777x)? Can the bios deal with large drives? How many audio I/O jacks does it have? Does it have a manual (external) volume control? Does it have an OPL/2 or other FM synthesizer built in? MIDI? Joystick port? Can you get a port replicator or dock for it? How long will a 16M P90 SVGA system go on a charge? Does the BIOS report true % battery state or just 'high, medium and low'? Can you swap capslock and control so that control is to the left of 'A', as God intended? Thanks in advance for putting up with my long list of questions. It is kind of important to check stuff like this before you try FreeBSD on a machine whose configuration is as fixed as typical laptops are. For a desktop you can just get a motherboard and pick parts off the compatability list, but... -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | How do Democrats spell 'denial'? N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | C-L-I-N-T-O-N URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |