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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!kogwy!hosokawa From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops? Date: 3 Dec 1996 11:50:30 GMT Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <581466$9ke@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> References: <32993EA8.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <m2zq05dkvy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <nGmSXlg@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Dnas-Posting-Host: lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp X-Newsreader: gnspool [Version 1.35 Sep.1,1996 (Unix)] In article <nGmSXlg@quack.kfu.com> nsayer@quack.kfu.com writes: >> You really only ought to use if_ze for installation. Go get the PAO >> package and let the card manager assign the ordinary ed driver to your >> card. Works excellently for me. I haven't benchmarked it, but I would >> venture to guess that it doesn't do any worse than the SMC Elite Ultra >> I have in another machine here (to be fair, I actually have the National >> Semi NE4100, but it's the same thing as the IBM card). New version (961202) of PAO is released yesterday. Please download it from PAO web page (http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO) or anonymous ftp server (ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/PAO/PAO-961202.tar.gz) BTW, I changed development enviroment machine for PAO from Digital Hinote Ultra 2 to Toshiba Libretto 30. This new machine is very cute (please see the picture on PAO web page). Sorry, this model is not sold in Japan only, but the size of keyboard doesn't match to the size of hands of most American :-). The size of body is 210 x 115 x 34 mm (8.2 x 4.5 x 1.3 in) and the weight is only 840 g (1.85 lb). It has Am5x86 100MHz CPU, 6.1 inch TFT LCD, 20MB RAM and 500MB HDD (1/3 inch height). FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA with PAO-961202 runs very fine on this machine. I'm posting this article from this machine. XFree86 3.2 also runs fine on it. My first "Palmtop FreeBSD machine". -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org