From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 4:13:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.abacus.co.uk (mailgate.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFA337B912 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antony@abacus.co.uk) Received: from abacus.co.uk (IDENT:antony@pcantony.bl.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.111]) by mailgate.abacus.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14779; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:35:10 +0100 Message-ID: <39782183.2207894E@abacus.co.uk> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:10:11 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis Organization: Abacus Polar PLC (UK) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-RC2 up for grabs References: <200007210821.BAA44197@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > Antony T Curtis wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > > > > While the newer X bits have several advantages such as being 4.1 binaries > > > rather than 3.x binaries and supporting the i810, they most likely won't be > > > used if I cannot resolve the PC98 issue in the next day or so. Please test > > > this out and give us feedback. Thanks. > > > > Would this mean that I can use FreeBSD 4.1 on a i810 mobo? > > That'd be great - at the moment, I'm having to use a Linux 2.4 beta > > kernel system on my desktop at work... And moving back to FreeBSD is > > something I really want to do. > > You can use 4.0 on a machine with a i810 motherboard. In fact, I built > RC2 on a machine with an i810 motherboard. However, it depends on your > definition of "use". I don't think that we support the sound card on the > i810 for example, and, personally, I haven't tried X out on this machine > yet. So, it depends on your definition of "use". I did mean using the i810 integrated video with XFree86. The sound isn't that important: It doesn't seem to work properly on Linux anyway. -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 Your fortune : Bushydo -- the way of the shrub. Bonsai! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message