Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:17:09 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1 on Compaq Presario 2284 ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990430211606.7628W-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199905010119.TAA04997@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Theodore Hope wrote: > Hi Alfred, > > > hit scroll-lock (i'm hoping compaq still has a "scroll-lock" key and > > hasn't replaced it with a "browse the net" key) :) > > > > you can then page-up/down and see the boot messages. > > > > his scroll lock again to get out of it. > > Thanks very much for the tip! > > > > > My question is, is anyone running 3.1 on this kind of Compaq; any > > > strange things to worry about? A few months ago we installed 2.2.7 on > > > a larger Compaq (can't remember the model but it's a 300 MHz Pentium II) > > > and were never able to get 2.2.7 to recognize more than 16 MB RAM (that > > > box has 64 MB). > > > > this has always been fixable by setting a kernel parameter and recompiling. > > Could you tell me what kernel parameter that is? Right now I'm not at the > site where the 2.2.7 box is. # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not # specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS # RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB # depending on the BIOS. If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will # then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM. If this probe # fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option. # The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would # be 131072 (128 * 1024). from releng_2 of LINT. -Alfred please keep posts to -questions _on_ -questions (keep the cc line) thanks. > > > > > The Presario 2284 has a Digital 21143-based 10/100 Ethernet (recognized > > > correctly as "de0" during floppy boot) and a built-in sound card > > > that windoze reports as "ES 1869". Is this sound card supported > > > by 3.1 ? > > > > I've had luck getting ESS cards working in 3.1, it should work, > > you may have to play with the "pnp" commands in the kernel > > config screen and of course compile pcm and pnp into your kernel. > > Great news. Thanks very much again, > -Ted. > -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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