Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:27:27 +0800 From: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To: Robert Kieffer <theapodan@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will the SiS 730s chipset and all of its perks run FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200108060127.f761RRU25469@x4.tucheng.generalresources.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Kieffer <theapodan@softhome.net> of "Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:15:25 -0400." <20010804041521.F39BD37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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In message <20010804041521.F39BD37B401@hub.freebsd.org>, Robert Kieffer writes: >I have been thinking about putting another OS on my >computer besides Windows 2000, and FreeBSD seems to be >the best of the free *nix community. However, BeOS does >not run on my hardware, particularly my video, and I am >wondering about FreeBSD. The computer itself is a Sony >RX450. Here are a bunch of specs. > >Mboard: Asus A7S >DVD drive: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116R >CD burner: SONY CD-RW CRX160E >IDE controller: SiS 5513 Dual PCI IDE Controller >Sound: SiS 7018 Audio Driver (SB16 compat.) >Network junk: >Lucent winmodem, Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC I have been testing an ASUS A7S-VM, SocketA/SiS 730/realtek 8139 with: 800MHz Duron 256M RAM Acer CD RW external GVC modem. HD 20G and 30G What works: 100Mbps Ethernet XFree86 3.3.6 cdburn to CD/RW and CDR media make buildworld memtest86 What does NOT: XFree86 4.1.0 (delay + spontaneous reboot if XFree86 -configure) AC97 sound port (no FreeBSD driver yet) Have never tried a "winmodem" as these are usually only supplied with software drivers that run only on MS OS. --- Christopher Hall <hsw@generalresources.com> Fax: +886-2-2795-3030 Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> Phone: +886-2-2795-5799 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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