From: Ingo Cyliax (cyliax_at_cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 03 1994 - 09:48:42 EST
+ Hmm...actually, my school has a site license for BSD that I can take
+ up for only $50. Maybe I should look into that. I would certainly
+ appreciate some pointers on what had to be hacked and how you went
+ about it. Have you run the X interface under it yet? How's that work?
We have the 'generic' XFree driver running on it. It only does 640x480x16,
and is kind of slow. We don't know what VGA chip they use, and even if we
did, I don't think Xfree 2.0 would support it. X on the notebooks is
quite a problem, especially for us.
+ Yupper, I'd love to hook up a ethernet PCMCIA card to my machine but
+ I'd have nowhere to network with... :) The biggest problem with these
+ machines seems to be the difficulty in getting a hold of one! :)
We may get sign a non-disclosure agreement with Xircom to write a
PCMCIA driver, unfortunately, we would only be able to release the
object for it, not the sources. I would prefer to do the D-Link card,
since we can give away the sources for it.
+ Let me know how it works out.
OK.
+ FWI, I run OS/2 usually with a DOS partition. But I grow weary of DOS
+ (don't we all) and would like to set up a UNIX-y parition in it's
+ place. Unfortunately, I was short-sighted enough to only give it a
+ 60mb partition...as I recall Linux and XFree took about 90mb...
Actually, how is OS/2 working out. I noticed that many people are
running OS/2 on their TPs. If there was an X server for OS/2 and a
gnu-C compiler, we would probably look into it.
See ya, -ingo
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