Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing on a notebook, urgent help, please. Date: 17 Aug 1996 11:49:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4v4bjt$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <YTSUJI.96Jul29182250@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> <4u0a23$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp (Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji) wrote: > I never heard of a video chipset for notebooks. They are > all for Brown tube monitors. Nate has already been following up. Basically, you need to find out about your graphics chipset first. I know, many notebook vendors don't mention technical details. You gotta bug them until you know. You might be lucky in running `SuperProbe' (from XFree86), perhaps it finds out the hairy details. Just a btw., this guy was Ferdinand Braun, so there's no reason you should spell it `Brown'. (Yes, i realize that you are from Japan, so it's only a minor difference for you -- but hey, i'm from Germany, and it makes a big difference for me. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)