From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 16:08:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05464 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05459 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:08:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA06563 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Tue, 20 Feb 1996 01:07:59 +0100 Message-Id: <199602200007.AA06563@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 01:07:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Marc G. Fournier" "Compaq DeskPro Support..." (Feb 19, 18:59) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: Compaq DeskPro Support... Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 19, 18:59, "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: } Subject: Compaq DeskPro Support... } } Hi... } } I've offered my time to try and help one of the local FreeNets } with an upgrade of one of their machines from ... Linux *eech* to FreeBSD, } but the hardware they are using, they've had problems with getting it all to } work well with Linux, so figure I should check and see if I should expect } similar problems with FreeBSD. AFAIK, the Deskpro works just fine with a recent version of FreeBSD (best if you try the latest 2.2-SNAP) ... Compaq has the configuration accesses to their chip set broken (not compliant to the PCI specs) and that caused lots of trouble ... Let me know if you can't get it to work. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se