jmcneill@invisible.yi.org ("Jared D. McNeill") writes:

>> > anyone with experience on running NetBSD on Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop?
>> > Are Dell's internal 10/100 NICs and soundcard interfaces supported?

>A quick search on google suggests that it comes with an ESS Maestro 3i.
>Assuming it's anywhere close to the Maestro 3 (and I'm willing to bet that
>it is), I have a driver that will make it work.


It should have the same sound hardware as a Dell Inspiron 8000 where
Jared's driver does work :)

The internal 10/100 NIC is a fxp interface that should work without
a problem (it does in the Inspiron 8000). The internal modem is a WinModem...

The _graphics card_ is a GeForce2 Go. The support for this chipset
in XFree is pretty limited, in particular the 'nv' driver does not
support digital LCDs which makes it almost useless on a Laptop with
GeForce hardware. The 'vesa' driver might work. It supports 1280x1024
on a Inspiron 8000 but not 1600x1200 (probably a bug in the VESA BIOS).


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