Date: 01 Nov 2003 11:43:16 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: knomadness <knomadness@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M/B Bios Settings Message-ID: <443cd8rqe3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031031063216.7884.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031031063216.7884.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com>
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knomadness <knomadness@yahoo.com> writes: > I am new to the unix, lunix and freebsd systems. I am > familiar with bios settings for win98se and xp, > however, i am not with freebsd or otherwise. > > I have 2 machines that i am building. one has a > Gigabyte GA-7VRXP(2.0) m/b and the other has an Asus > A7V333 m/b. > > In my bios settings, how should I set them for freebsd > 5.1?; Mostly, it shouldn't matter. Remember, however, that 5.x isn't really intended for neophytes. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html > In Features Setup; Interrupt Mode- PIC or APIC? > > Are there any other bios settings that freebsd > requires or accepts? Don't change any BIOS settings from their defaults except to deal with observed problems. > When setting up the video card configuration in > X-windows, how do you indicate or direct it to use the > AGP slot not a PCI slot? Usually, by inserting a video card into an AGP slot instead of a PCI slot. If you have both installed, then the answer kind of depends on why you did that; the PC architecture doesn't deal well with such a configuration. > Are there any other idiosyncrasies that i need to be > aware of? It's usually best to try the install and deal with problems, rather than trying to anticipate problems that wouldn't have occurred anyway.
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