Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)

Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)

[okamoto]

>>I used notebook(laptop) three times, and all the experience was negative.

>Really?  My IBM Thinkpad T21 pretty much ran out of the box.  I had to

Sorry, it's my fault of shortage of words.
I didn't say it on Plan 9, but an experience as a general notebook.  The most
negative point was/is non-expandability of notebooks, which leads to very
short life time compared with its price.  This was my argument to notebooks.

Kenji

Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)

[Dan Cross]

In article <20010118011101.C5C17199F2@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Sorry, it's my fault of shortage of words.

No, I think I just misinterpreted your email....  My bad.

>I didn't say it on Plan 9, but an experience as a general notebook.  The most
>negative point was/is non-expandability of notebooks, which leads to very
>short life time compared with its price.  This was my argument to notebooks.

Yes, I agree that this is very lame....

	- Dan C.

Re: [9fans] Laptops and /lib/vgadb (Was: Re: Worm Recommendations?)

[Dan Cross]

In article <20010117045533.DCF41199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>>It's a Toshiba 3440CT.
>
>Toshiba, damn it!  :-)
>
>I used notebook(laptop) three times, and all the experience was negative.

Really?  My IBM Thinkpad T21 pretty much ran out of the box.  I had to
add a line to /lib/vgadb, but that was it.  Certainly, getting Plan 9
on it was a lot easier than FreeBSD.  Unfortunately, there's no driver
for the audio hardware.  (If there is, and anyone knows about it,
please let me know---I'd love to listen to music without draining the
batteries on my discman.)

(Speaking of /lib/vgadb, the line I added is:

	0xC0045="S3 Savage\IX BIOS Ver. 4.02.50 - 39"

And it was added to the stanza containing other Savage entries.  I'm
not sure who to send that to, ultimately.)

>Only once I thought it's valuable when I brought it to US with linux on it.
>It was a Taiwanese 486/SX machine (and was cheap, but not beatiful), though.

Man, with my dinky apartment in New York, a laptop is about the only
computer I can use.  :-)  I just wish I had a bigger display.

>My Tecra 720CT looks like very nice machine for Plan 9, because I feel 
>craftsmanship from it, once it was found everywhere in my mother country.

:-)

	- Dan C.