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Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:15:25 -0400
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From: Robert Kieffer <theapodan@softhome.net>
Subject: Will the SiS 730s chipset and all of its perks run FreeBSD?
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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

A more complete synopsis of the chipset is at 

http://www.sis.com.tw/products/slota/730sfea.htm

The closest Mboard listing is at

http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/socketa/a
7s-vm/index.html

Please help me, I am a poor fool since I gave up my roots in 
dos and a linux distro called small linux.

If you are so kind as to respond, please mail me at 
theapodan@softhome.net

Sincerely,
Robert


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