From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Oct 05 1997 - 11:53:09 EDT
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:05:21 +0200 (MEST), Christoph Eyrich wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Kendall Don Chenoweth wrote:
>
>> I am considoring getting a thinkpad 38x. Does anybody have one or have
>> heard of anything about this model?
>>
>> I am going to be running linux, so I want a machine with lots of RAM, a
>
>
>The 380 features a Neomagic chip. As the manufacturer does not care
>about Linux (have a look at their web page...) and does not release any
>specifications (as to this question they even don't answer email...) you
>have to buy the Accelerated X-server by Xinside. It's about 100 US$
>more than the desktop version, with less functionality (that is, if you
>use a docking station with a desktop graphics card you can't use the
>Xinside server unless you also buy the desktop version.) In some cases
>you will be able to run XFree with 16 colors but that isn't very useful
>if you use applications such as xdvi.
>
>If there is an alternative, I certainly would never buy a machine with
>this chip. (I have an HP Omnibook running Linux, the machine has this
>chip, I bought the X-server...)
>
I hate it when manafacturers do that, or they are even chosen
by IBM or another company, because they not only omit the Linux
community, but the OS/2 community, and both seem to have some
things in common.
Just my 2 cents.
Paul
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:53:46 EST