From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 09:53:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA27810 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:53:52 -0700 Received: from borris.khoros.unm.edu (borris.khoros.unm.edu [198.59.155.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA27801 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:53:49 -0700 Received: by borris.khoros.unm.edu (4.1/KHOROS/Feb 18 1994) id <9507261653.AA27021@borris.khoros.unm.edu>; Wed, 26 Jul 95 10:53:48 MDT Posted-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:53:47 MDT Message-Id: <9507261653.AA27021@borris.khoros.unm.edu> From: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:53:47 MDT X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Machine Specs Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm looking to put together a pentium system running Freebsd 2.0.5 I have little experience with PCI and pentium systems, so I wanted to ask what works well with Freebsd and what I should be leary of. o I'd like information on which chipset to get (Is triton good?) o A fast and good PCI video card that can do 1280x1024 x 24bit. I'll settle for 8bit at that resolution, but I'd like to run a TrueColor Xserver at that resolution if I can. o Which PCI scsi controller for fast a stable performance. o Are there good PCI ethernet cards that are supported, or should I go with an ISA one? Thanks for any help. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@kaos.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------