Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Georgiana S. Trigg" <gtrigg@rocketmail.com> To: Dan Mahoney <dan@ns1.wolf.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FREEBSD/COMPAQ COMPATIBILITY Message-ID: <19980828191102.2231.rocketmail@web1.rocketmail.com>
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Hello, You know, I think that's one of the best pieces of advice I've gotten yet. No matter what O/S format I go with, I shall definitely get myself a nice little sound card with a separate modem (a Xoom or a U.S. Robotics, maybe?) Much thanks, Georgiana === There is no evil except that which exists in our own minds. ---Dan Mahoney <dan@ns1.wolf.com> wrote: > > Georgiana, > > I'm sure Greg will have more to say about this, but the > modem-sound card will probably be a problem under just > about any OS you load. Manufacturers of these cards usually > take some rather drastic design shortcuts and write hefty > device drivers to work around the hardware shortcuts they > took. This leaves the cards unuseable without the mfg's > driver, which of course doesn't help under non-WinBloze > systems. I think you'd save yourself a lot of frustration > if you just bought an internal modem and a cheap sound card. > > Dan Mahoney > dan@wolf.com > > > Hello Greg, > > > > I was hoping actually that someone out there > > could say "Oh, yeah. I installed it to my > > Compaq and had this problem or that problem." > > Or "I installed it... It works fine." > > > > > Well, Windows products don't work well, > > period. > > > > Yeesh! Tell me about it! I want a UNIX box! :-( > > > > If they're doing > > > particularly badly on your machine, you might > > have problems which > > > affect operating systems, such as FreeBSD, as > > well. It's probably > > > worth your while to mention what machine you > > have, and what the > > > problems with Microsoft are. > > > > If you instist... :-) I have a 4764 model. > > I've had it for 18 mo.s or so. It has 166 MHz > > processor, 32 MB RAM, and a 2.5GB HD, just to > > name a few things. I'm going to have to yank > > off the case cover and probe and dig to get more > > specific. Compaq's documentation leaves > > something to be desired. > > > > I believe the machine must have come with Ver. A > > of '95. I've seen more freezes, blue screens, > > and illegal operations than any one human being > > should. I completely reformatted my hard drive > > before I did a full install of '98. The major > > problem with that was it wouldn't pick up my > > internal modem on COM2. There were no jumpers > > to reset on the modem/sound card, and even after > > applying a patch from the Compaq site, I STILL > > can't get into the set-up. I considered > > detaching the HD to boot directly into BIOS, but > > totally detaching your HD is just BEGGING for > > misery sometimes... I'm running an external > > modem I borrowed from work on COM1, and I REALLY > > don't want to go out and buy an external to try > > to patch up that problem. > > > > Now it works okay, but it will do weird > > things... My icons on my bar at the bottom > > right of the screen will all disappear except > > the volume icon and I have to reboot. After I > > tell it to reboot (yes, I hit Start, Shut Down, > > Reboot), I still have to do 2 Ctrl-Alt-Dels to > > get it to finish. Everything disappears but the > > wallpaper and it hangs. > > > > My warranty is up, and even before it ran out, > > Compaq tech support was USELESS. Any time I had > > a problem, their solution was simply to blame it > > on the last piece of software I had installed. > > *sigh* > > > > My last-ditch effort will be quick-restoring my > > hard drive and upgrading the Win '95. It's very > > possible that Win '98 just DOES NOT like my > > hardware. It's probably pretty cheap stuff, > > anyways. I'm sure my internal modem isn't the > > best on the market, especially since it's one of > > those modem+soundcard in one wonders... > > > > Needless to say, I am going to BUILD my next box > > and make it generic as possible! > > > > Regards and thanks, > > > > Georgiana > > _________________________________________________________ > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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