Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Ollie Lho wrote: > > > Something off topic. There is a very cheap SiS 630S notebook avaliable > > in Taiwan market which made somewhat a hit in the current economic > > downturn. It costs less than 1500 U.S.D for PIII 850 + 320 MB RAM + > > 20 GB HD + DVD-ROM. The form factor is very slim with Aluminum alley > > case and weights less than 2KG. It is marked with various barnds like > > GVC G500 or Fox G500 or LEO 6930 (I believe it is under other names > > in the "international" market) . If you are brave enough and what > > to burn/dump/waste your money hacking notebook, it would be a good > > target. > > I would like to buy one of these. I am still concerned about the LCD > controller. As I understand it nobody knows how to make it work. > > So if we can resolve the LCD driver issue and I can figure out where to > buy one I'll buy it. >
Our VGA department has some new version of FB driver/XFree 4 which is claimed to support some LCD driver hardware they left unsupported in earlier versions. > Ollie have you tried it out with linuxbios? > No, I am not the one with brave mind to burn/dump/waste my money doing that :-0. Ollie
