From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 23:41:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09212 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09203 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23797; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ERIIX cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility questions (again) In-Reply-To: <000101bd577b$b3c889e0$883b2299@dmdwnjdz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, ERIIX wrote: > I have a HP Pavilion 8190 ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is already a harbringer of trouble: Inexpensive For-Home-Use PC. May have flakey or otherwise non-standard, incompatible hardware. > w/ Logitech trackball, simple PC Gamepad, 300Mhz > PII, 32Megs of SDRAM with 512K of pipeline burst cache, 6Gig HD, Okay thru there. > DVD, Not supported yet. > K56Flex DSVD modem, I think so, the voice features may need vgetty. > ATI Rage II Pro AGP with 3D display graphics, AGP > graphics port, 4Megs SGRAM video memory, Should be okay with the very latest XFree86. > TV output (don't need this), You'd be surprised. if this is actually a TV input card, it may be Bt848 based, which we do support. > POLK > Audio speakers, Hardware wavetable, USB, and a HP Pavilion Multimedia > display. The soundcard needs the new sound driver with 2.2.6, and no implementation of USB exists for UNIX yet. Overall, should be okay. If you can get the boot floppy's main menu you are probably home free. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message