oops. yes, i've run plan9 on a t30 with 1400x1050 screen for a few years and everything worked (wifi, ethernet, graphics, audio) until the hardware became too broken to be usable. reading from video memory is exceptionally slow, so vesa might be much slower than you expect.
On 6/30/07, Aki Nyrhinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/30/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Jun 29 15:27:25 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am thinking about buying a laptop to run Plan9 on and was looking at > > ThinkPad T30's. The wiki hardware compatibility list says that this > > model is supported by Plan9. Has anyone had any bad experiences with > > this laptop and Plan9 that I should be aware of before purchaing it? > > Looking at the list archives it seems that some people have had > > trouble with the video driver but as long as VESA works I'd be > > content. Does anyone on this list use this laptop to run Plan9 > > currently? > > i'm not sure you can assume that every x30 shipped with the same video > chipset. that may be worth double-checking. > > - erik >
