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Re: ASUS L8400B laptop
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:41:25AM -0500, Kit Halsted wrote:
> On 11/1/00, Paul Branston wrote:
> >Has anyone tried OpenBSD on this laptop.
nothing about the laptop
> >The S3 Savage/MX worries me a little.
in 2.8 snapshots my Savage (3D) works just fine. i didn't play with,
for some longer period of time, but for a couple of days it was ok.
what about Savage/MX, AFAIK the driver in OpenBSD's X's was written
indeed for Savage/MX...
> It should worry you if you want XFree86 to work. I just got burned by
> this chipset myself, but I've got a desktop so $25 to some guy on
> eBay worked around it for me. Some research showed that it may be
> possible to recompile XFree86 3.3.6 to support the Savage chipsets on
> various BSDs, but it looked like a much bigger PITA than I felt like
> dealing with.
no need to recomplile, OpenBSD has already built the driver in 3.3.6,
use and enjoy...
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