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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will *BSD and XFree86 run on this Pentium system?
Date: 5 Jun 94 01:02:14 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <1994Jun1.100829.4451@hellgate.utah.edu> moore%defmacro.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore) writes:
>I'm looking into buying a Pentium-based system with the following specs:
>90Mhz Pentium. Motherboard has 2 PCI, 4ISA, 1 shared, Neptune chipset.
>Matrox PCI video controller.
^^^^^^
Bad move. Matrox will probably *never* be supported by XFree. Their
video boards are almost completely proprietary. Get a good S3 card
like a #9 or STB, or get an ATI Ultra board.
>BusLogic PCI SCSI controller.
>1.06Gig SCSI disk.
Sounds good.
>Does anyone have any experience with similar systems, or know of
>reasons why this system wouldn't work with FreeBSD or NetBSD and
>XFree86?
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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