From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 13 9: 7: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864C737B43C for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 09:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23520; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f4DG6VJ18640; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:06:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15102.45319.65597.205221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:06:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Cc: Subject: Re: 500au In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it writes: > > the Digital PErsonal Workstaion 500a or 500au are they both well supported > by FreeBSD anyone here use a 500 a or 500au with FreeBSD ?? > thanks > > Rick > Yes. The only caveats are that X is a bit flakey. Somewhat less flakey than on an AS200, but still fakey. My home box is a 433au, and it crashes about 1 out of ever 20 starts of the X server. X is only bulletproof on tsunami or irongate based machines... Other than that, its pretty well supported. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message