From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 14:51:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B92637B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-43-158.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.43.158]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA10244; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:51:21 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <065401c1479e$6c2f2b40$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Bsd Newbie" , References: <20010927174006.79033.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell laptops... Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:49:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I remember there were a few posts about installing FreeBSD on the > > > Inspirion 800... but I don't recall anything about anyone's success. > > > > > > If anyone has done the install... was it pretty straightforward... or > > was > > > it riddled with problems? I'm planning to install off of the 4.4 > > iso's. > > > > Not had any problems with the basic install - just popped in the CD and > > booted to it no problems, install went as smooth as you would expect. > > I've > > not ventured into putting X or anything like that on though, so I > > wouldn't > > be able to help there. > That's definately good news... Do you forsee a problem with XFree86 and > the Geforce2go chipset? No idea really, I've got an ATI M4 Mobility which I've heard works with XFree86 v4 and above, no idea about the Geforce2Go I'm afraid though. Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message