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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing on a notebook, urgent help, please. Date: 14 Aug 1996 17:17:43 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4ut1nn$1og@helena.MT.net> References: <YTSUJI.96Jul29182250@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> <4u0a23$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com In article <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp>, Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji <ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp> wrote: > > |> The display shows fine until it shows the hard drive > |> is properly recognized, and then the screen sort of > |> blacks out; the hard drive keeps on running; as I hit > |> the keyboard blindly "root", CRLF, and then "echo ^G", > | > |You probably need to find out about the video chipset first. > | > >I never heard of a video chipset for notebooks. They are >all for Brown tube monitors. There's no mention of video >chips in the hardware manual, either. Huh? Are you using a notebook, or something completely different? All of the notebooks I'm aware of use LCD monitors, and are driving by different video chipsets. Are we talking about the same thing? > I wonder if anyone ever managed to install FreeBSD on a >notebook computer. I've had it running on at a half-dozen various notebooks here, so yes I'm sure it works. I'm the primary 'laptop' support dude for FreeBSD, so I *hope* it works. Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!