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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!usenet From: "Gary L. Jackson" <garyj@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Micron computers and FreeBSD 2.1 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:14:53 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3130990D.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> References: <31309186.41C67EA6@psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kzin.dorm.umd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Brian Wasserman <bsw114@psu.edu> Brian Wasserman wrote: > I am interested in purchasing a Micron computer. I haven't researched > which system I will get but I want to run FreeBSD 2.1. > > Has anybody successfully installed it on a Micron? Have there been > any problems? Which monitor do you have? I would love to hear your > experiences with this. I have FreeBSD 2.1 installed on my machine, which is a Micron. My monitor is the 15FGx. At 800x600, the picture is a little flickery, but that's because I haven't bothered to fiddle with the xf86config file. The one serious problem I had was when I was installing my ethernet card. I have an SMC EtherPower 10/100, which is a PCI-based card. When I installed it, it was right below the SCSI controller (bt946c) and the video card (ATI Graphics Pro Turbo). When the OS tried to start up networking, it choked and died. The driver for the 946c uses some sort of emulation mode of an ISA card made by the same people who made my card. It was trying to initialize the ethernet card on the same IRQ, and that is why it was failing. I switched positions, though, of the ethernet card and the video card, and that solved the problem. -- Gary