Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:39:17 -0400 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell & FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990423103916.E2506@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <NBBBIGBEGKMGELCBGGOMGEAGCHAA.rayseals@midwestis.com>; from Ray Seals on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 09:04:38AM -0500 References: <NBBBIGBEGKMGELCBGGOMGEAGCHAA.rayseals@midwestis.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 09:04:38AM -0500, Ray Seals wrote: > I don't know if anyone is keeping a list of machines or brands that FreeBSD > works well with but here is one for the list. Last night a pulled a brand > spanking new Dell Dimension V400 out of the box. My recent experiences with Dell boxes and FreeBSD: Various desktops: Dell Dimension XPS T500 Installed without a hitch. I used 'RIVA TNT' as the video card for X. The CD-ROM is a NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28D/3.04. I've been having poor luck using this CD rom as a music player (I'm using /dev/racd0c). The two that work best are xcdplayer and cda, the others are inconsistent. The sound card, if I've pulled all of the lore together, is (according to the Win98 installation) a 'Yamaha DS-GX Legacy Sound System', with the associated chipsets: MPU401 and YMF724. I can't get anything to work. :( Perhaps someone could clear things up for me: the YMF724 is 'the PCI controller which talks to the codec' (according to a recent post to -hackers by Luigi), and the MPU401 is a MIDI chipset. I don't know enough about sounds cards to cobble together a kernel that probes all of this, much less even any basic sound card ability. Advice, anyone? Servers: Poweredge 1300 Install started great, until it was revealed that FreeBSD wasn't probing the CD-ROM. It's very frustrating to boot from the CD-ROM, only to have the OS swear that it's not there. I tried twice to install with various cablings/jumper settings, but to no avail. Because we were pressed for time, I had to install Red Hat on it. :( Poweredge 6300 We were shot dead, as this box was provisioned with the PERC2 SC RAID controller, which seems to be really an AMI MegaRAID. FreeBSD doesn't support this. Again, I had to go with Red Hat. :( -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Current daytime number: (603)-434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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