From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 19:57:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9271533F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from huppe@execpc.com) Received: from execpc.com (galaan-5.mdm.mad.execpc.com [169.207.40.197]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id VAA05589; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:56:34 -0500 Message-ID: <378AAB57.4E06A3C@execpc.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:58:31 -0500 From: Len Huppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: "Booth, Christopher" , "'freebsd'" Subject: Re: Motherboard/CPU Query References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The sole purpose of building a fully integrated motherboard is to minimize costs, and sometimes the end-user's options. The only company that has ever made a decent board like that is Apple, and those boards won't run FreeBSD. At least not yet. You can try to run your Alton board but if it gives you any grief, you could end up spending a LOT of time fighting with it. I would say that you have a 50/50 chance of success with it. Do you feel lucky? good luck Len Huppe Rick Hamell wrote: > > Is anyone out there running FreeBSD with an Alton 748 PII/III SVGA/Sound/56k > > modem (i.e., the video, sound, and modem cards are built in) motherboard and > > an Intel Celeron 333a CPU? > > > > If so, have you any caveats? > > Do not under any circumstances ever, ever, ever run a motherboard > with everything built in. You have cheap hardware that is barely supported > by the manufacturers even under Windwos, poor (usually) quality control, > and it's hard to upgrade single pieces. Especially if one thing goes bad. > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message