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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD On Gateway G6-200 ?? Date: 26 Aug 1996 11:50:53 +0300 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4vrohd$9lk@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <dzn2zwzrpj.fsf@morticia.inmos.co.uk> <4vfcf7$9o@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Richard Ingram (rji@morticia.inmos.co.uk) wrote: >: I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM, >: 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are >The only GOTCHA is that you can't use X without X-Insides (proprietry) >X server - there's another company that produce an X server for Matrox, another thing is the Intel made feature into the chipset on your motherboard killing the PCI performance... try to run ANY serious graphics on the screen simultaneously and you'll see... i would assume any serious SCSI gets jammed too... and the PCI feature comes with both 440 and 450 series chipsets as far as i know... anyone with better information feel free to correct... yes, i wish someone would correct me and tell me the pro chipsets finally _do_ work... *shrug* >Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> mickey