From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Mar 25 10:24:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.carnagecopia.com (absinthe.carnagecopia.com [216.187.87.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F9F337B404 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 91577 invoked by uid 85); 25 Mar 2002 18:24:21 -0000 Received: from random@carnagecopia.com by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4193. . Clean. Processed in 0.146552 secs); 25 Mar 2002 18:24:21 -0000 Received: from firewall-vancouver.goblinstudios.com (HELO workstation-61) (204.244.192.2) by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 18:24:21 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:23:50 -0800 From: Vincent Janelle To: Andy Isaacson Cc: culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org, hlwatts@hiwaay.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Visual Workstation 330 Message-Id: <20020325102350.3c00430d.random@carnagecopia.com> In-Reply-To: <20020325120239.B9675@hexapodia.org> References: <000b01c1d41b$6bdaee40$944cb4d8@hiwaay.net> <20020325124253.E15966-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20020325094440.3bec515f.random@carnagecopia.com> <20020325120239.B9675@hexapodia.org> Organization: Goblin Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yeah, after spending the required 10 seconds to look on the internet, this motherboard appears to be powered by the VIA apollo chipset. I've got a couple of machines running these and they appear to be stable, but they're not exactly high-use machines. On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:02:39 -0600 Andy Isaacson wrote: > The SGI VW series is confusing, fer sure. Vincent is thinking of the VW > 540 and 320, which were truly amazing non-standard boxes that died > their deserved death. (Their internal design was more like the O2 than > like a standard PC.) You will have poor luck running anything but NT on > the VW 540/320, even Linux doesn't have all the necessary hacks (and it > doesn't have accelerated drivers for the graphics, which are the only > thing that makes the machine special). > > The 330, on the other hand, is a much more standard PC-like box with AGP > graphics and a fairly standard BIOS (I believe). These boxes didn't > require any freaky special HAL, they run bog-standard NT and Linux. You > will probably have decent luck getting this board running under FreeBSD. --=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8n2s4T+ow5T/THzQRAraNAKCYfrhazzRZVObPGR7e81XlaFIpMACfemvl 6ah4r+JP1Qc0lm8CMi9SlKQ= =karA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message