From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 04:40:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01968 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 04:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01954 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 04:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12839; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 06:39:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199806171139.GAA12839@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Anyone using FreeBSD with Dell Dimension Hardware? In-Reply-To: from James at "Jun 16, 98 09:58:00 pm" To: higginsj@iname.com Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 06:39:21 -0500 (CDT) Cc: metcalf@snet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com Reply-To: jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James babbled: > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:58:00 -0400 (EDT) > From: James > To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > > > I'm considering the purchase of a Dell Dimension R333 or R350. My > > company has Dell as a vendor, and I can get a serious discount. > > Hopefully somebody out there can verify that FreeBSD is happy with > > the hardware used in these machines. I have posted to the XFree86 > > newsgroup asking whether or not the STB NVidia AGP video card is > > supported, but any comments from FreeBSD fellows on this issue is > > more than welcome. > > I dunno about that specific model, but I have seen 2.2.6 on a Dell P2-266, > 64 meg sdram, 3 gig ide hard disk with a 4 meg ATI Rage II onboard video > card and it liked things pretty well. It was using a 3COM but I am not > sure which. I don't know about sound. > > I think it was a Dimension. If not it was an Omniplex(?). Dunno about the particular product in question, but I'm aware of quite a few Dell boxes running FreeBSD (and BSDI) here at Dell with no apparent problems. I haven't paid attention to whether they're Dimension or OptiPlex machines, but I could ask if it would be any help. (They're in a different building where I seldom go.) My expectation is that any Dimension product would be about as "industry standard" as anything on the market, since they're built around standard Intel motherboards. OptiPlex machines are all internal Dell designs, so there's more opportunity there to be incompatible with BSD, but that doesn't mean they will be. -- Jerry Dunham GS650G Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message