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I use a Frontpath Progear (their older model) which runs X fairly well
with a minimum setup effort.

The driver itself handles the rotation, but I don't have on-the-fly
rotation.  It requires a restart.

One thing to check out is that you can enter the BIOS or at least have
a USB keyboard plugged in so you can select which kernel to boot (or
boot into single user) if needed, without doing what I have to do --
pull the hard drive, drop into another box, fix kernel, put it back.
It's a serious PITA.

Lastly, the tablet I have seems to be even less well defined than many
laptops in terms of how the interrupt routing and such really work.
It required some pretty serious tinkering to find a combination where
both the USB and the built-in wireless card could all work at the same
time.

- --Michael

Marshall Rose <mrose+mtr.netnews@dbc.mtview.ca.us> writes:

> i'm thinking of getting one of the tablet pc, but would naturally want to run
> netbsd on it. there about 5 models out there now, and although the exteriors
> look different, it all pretty much comes down to a pentium3.
> 
> so, here's a few basic questions for folks who understand this stuff far better
> than i:
> 
> 1. usually, i build bootlap1/bootlap2 floppies and boot from those, using an
> ethernet/dhcp/etc. to do the heavy-lifting.
> 
> none of these devices have an internal floppy, so i guess my question is: if i
> attach a usb-floppy to the device, what's the liklihood that the bios is going
> to see that and give me the opportunity to boot from it?
> 
> if the answer is slim/none, then how do folks suggest i get the netbsd loader
> into the thing?
> 
> 2. what kind of issues should i expect to run into with xfree86? i don't mind
> doing some coding, but i'd like to understand the landscape. speaking of which,
> most of these tabets have a button that let you toggle between
> landscape/portrait mode...
> 
> thanks for the basics,
> 
> /mtr
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