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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 15:51:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Kathryn L. Madison" <kmadison@isr.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Micron hardware
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508154950.28351L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805081759.NAA15438@queen.isr.umd.edu>

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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Kathryn L. Madison wrote:

> I'm trying to find out if FreeBSD will run on a Micron Powerdigm
> system with a Pentium II 300 Mhz chip and an Adaptec 2940 UW
> SCSI controller/PCI card.

Should be fine.

>  It also has a Diamond Fire Pro GL 1000 8MB
> video card, and with Linux, we are unable to contact the video
> card. 

You'll need to grab the X server from www.suse.com (or www.suse.de, i
always forget).  Diamond isn't ready to release the FireGL specs to just
anyone yet.

In the interim text mode should work fine.

> Thanks very much for your time.  If you just have pointers to
> information places, that would be appreciated as well.  (I did check
> the FAQ, but it doesn't address the video card issue, and I don't
> know if the inability of linux to see the video card is a kernel
> problem or something else.)

You can get information on XFree86 at http://www.xfree86.org.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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