so it looks lie the NeoMacgic chipset is the one to get. What popular low
cost noteboods use this chipeset
----- Original Message -----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Laptops and Mandrake 6
>
> CTX has some roll-your-own notebooks sans op system or available with
Win98
> which fit that budget. They use the Cyrix MediaGXM chips and have a very
low
> chip count compared to most (important for long-term reliability) Make
sure you
> get a TFT or Active matrix display for the sake of your vision. The last
> serious problem I had implementing linux on a notebook was with my most
prized
> possession, a Panasonic CF-62. I had to play with the timing of the C&T
65555
> video and I can work only in 16 bit depth at 1024x768 now. I was able to
> implement 640x480 and 800x600 but neither covered the whole screen. Even
though
> there was a problem, it took less than two hours of experimenting with
modelines
> numbers to make it work smoothly.
>
> About the worst that can happen except for the NeoMagics, is that you will
have
> to edit XF86Config by hand after running the X install. There are many
people
> who have done it and even databases of successful XFree installation
Config
> files out on the net.
>
> Good luck
>
> Civileme
>
> Jeanette Russo wrote:
>
> > Something around that $1800 mark would be nice. I could spend more.
> > I have heard good things about The ThinkPad's. I guess Neo Magic Video
> > is what you want. Just need to find out which laptops use Neo Magic
Video
> > chips.. Thanks
> > Jeanette
>
>
