On Wed Aug 16, 2000 at 10:34:59AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
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> In message <20000816095413.D447@dr-evil.z.zembu.com>Jason R Thorpe writes
> >On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:39:45AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> >
> >Screw it, and get a Dell :-)
> 
> Yeah. Anyone know what kind of audio hardware is in the latest
> Dells (Inspiron 5000 with 600MHz mobile P-III)?
> 
> Is it something NetBSD supports native ac97, or just 8-bit sb or
> wss hardware emulation?
> 
> How about the Compaq Presario (same graphics chips as the Dells,
> but with ess audio?)

Can't speak for the Inspiron But I'm happy with a Dell CPx PIII 450

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (pearl) #11: Sat Aug 12 00:58:49 EDT 2000


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ATI Rage Mobile works fine with XFree86 Version 3.3.6:

vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Mach64 LM (rev. 0x64)


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Ess Maestro is not supported but I read ossaudio may in the future:

ESS Technology Inc Maestro 2E PCI Audio Accelerator (audio multimedia, revision 0x10) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured

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Cardbus and the Xircom RBEM-56G 10/100 work also:

tlp0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0: Xircom X3201-3 Ethernet, pass 0.3
tlp0: Ethernet address 00:10:a4:ec:98:e9
com2 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 1: Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56

Have not tried any apm stuff while in X.  I like to disable apm anyway and
use the bios which works fine for me. I use an external serial mouse. I believe
the ps/2 trackpoint/touchpad combo would be ok though.  



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