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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: HP Omnibook 5000?
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I am looking hard at an HP Omnibook 5000 - specifically, model
F1131A. Can someone fill in some blanks for me? Basically, I want
to find out how well FreeBSD will work on it, which pretty much
means I need to know the chipsets used for video, sound, PCMCIA 
and especially the SCSI controller (the internal 2.5" drive is
a SCSI one, right?).

It would appear from looking at the floppies you can download from
their site that the video is a CT65548 and the PCMCIA is a
Cirrus Logic PD-67mumble, which is fine. The sound looks like it
is Crystal Semi CS42xx... Does that mean that it emulates
an AD1848 or a soundblaster?

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