Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:25:34 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Dan Bikle" <dan.bikle@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607221725y7ca67d49r22ea9dfcebd4c594@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <74252ed10607221330h6b434f4dkb8d79b0c60238357@mail.gmail.com> References: <74252ed10606171050w6fdd78c8nd7fceedf4c5c2e6b@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0606171247p44ed1adfh9db7b82051ab8a38@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606171439l13b6d24ek7e4689f7952eb895@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606181338s2fef875fqd367631c5aebb64@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10607221330h6b434f4dkb8d79b0c60238357@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/22/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, > > it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake. > > They sent me the wrong computer. > > I don't understand why. The item listed in my online order was > clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached > to the shipping box. > > Perhaps they have a literacy problem in their warehouse. > > At least the return was easy; I just took the box to my local > Walmart and they accepted it and then put the correct credit > on my credit card. > > Then, I went to Frys. > I showed the spec of the Walmart machine that I wanted. > > They easily beat Walmart with an 'open-box' special which is > a customer returned computer still under warranty. > > I got an HP Pavilion a1340n for about $500. > It has 1G RAM, > 250G HD, > 1 R-W DVD drive > and 1 R-O DVD drive. > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz > > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=1818054&dlc=&docname=c00575715 > > It has an ATI grapics card but I'm not sure how to use > a shell command to give me information about it. > > I looked at dmesg output and saw nothing about the grapics card. > > How might I get info about my graphics card? > Pop the case open and look at the chip, if it doesn't void the warranty... It looks like it uses an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1818054&lang=en&docname=c00590356# http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/radeonxpressmobo/intel775int.html -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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