From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 15:52:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02499 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02327 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28432; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:51:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Kathryn L. Madison" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micron hardware In-Reply-To: <199805081759.NAA15438@queen.isr.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message