From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 00:25:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046AE16A4DA for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498B243D45 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:25:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1866730uge for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:25:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AlsxEUS3inr9qgu+lwsez9Sy3HcgYzTWR+4yiKM5sFCi16iBw/F25f5wqkSsk+qvZz85WLQJy4igqfzrwNoEC8FrUeUZqRlkcgG8z0XbO+BtIdornWttLX6LR0rF2PhFvWnuZBay+XP4HcTmvaI2yMDGKvBWeHBSjXBxhwUk7jw= Received: by 10.78.177.11 with SMTP id z11mr959470hue; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.13 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:25:34 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Dan Bikle" In-Reply-To: <74252ed10607221330h6b434f4dkb8d79b0c60238357@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <74252ed10606171050w6fdd78c8nd7fceedf4c5c2e6b@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606171439l13b6d24ek7e4689f7952eb895@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606181338s2fef875fqd367631c5aebb64@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10607221330h6b434f4dkb8d79b0c60238357@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:25:38 -0000 On 7/22/06, Dan Bikle wrote: > Well, > > it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake. > > They sent me the wrong computer. > > I don't understand why. The item listed in my online order was > clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached > to the shipping box. > > Perhaps they have a literacy problem in their warehouse. > > At least the return was easy; I just took the box to my local > Walmart and they accepted it and then put the correct credit > on my credit card. > > Then, I went to Frys. > I showed the spec of the Walmart machine that I wanted. > > They easily beat Walmart with an 'open-box' special which is > a customer returned computer still under warranty. > > I got an HP Pavilion a1340n for about $500. > It has 1G RAM, > 250G HD, > 1 R-W DVD drive > and 1 R-O DVD drive. > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz > > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=1818054&dlc=&docname=c00575715 > > It has an ATI grapics card but I'm not sure how to use > a shell command to give me information about it. > > I looked at dmesg output and saw nothing about the grapics card. > > How might I get info about my graphics card? > Pop the case open and look at the chip, if it doesn't void the warranty... It looks like it uses an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1818054&lang=en&docname=c00590356# http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/radeonxpressmobo/intel775int.html -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/