From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 08:29:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA08173 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:29:45 -0700 Received: from spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.13]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA08165 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:29:34 -0700 Received: by spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id LAA16071; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:49 -0401 From: Kristyn Fayette Message-Id: <199508101529.LAA16071@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Subject: Re: GW2000 2.0.5 installed? To: jmacd@uclink.berkeley.edu (Joshua Peck Macdonald) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508100921.CAA03028@uclink.berkeley.edu> from "Joshua Peck Macdonald" at Aug 10, 95 02:21:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1440 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk } Has anyone installed 2.0.5R or later on a Gateway 2000 pentium-60? } My friends computer has AMI BIOS 1.00.10.aftXX, a mach32 video } card, a pci ide hard drive, their goofy PS/2 style mouse/keyboard, } and the Intel Premium Motherboard. Last time we tried to install } 1.1.5 I think and it failed, we couldn't do much with the serial } ports and I don't think there was a XFree driver yet, will it work? } } -josh } I've had 1.0.2, 1.1.5.1, and 2.0.5 installed on my Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V. I've got a PS/2 style mouse and the 124-key keyboard (if that's what you mean by "goofy") and an ATI Ultra Pro mach32 video card with 2 megs. But, I've got a Phoenix BIOS, not AMI. Both my serial ports work fine. Since I enabled /dev/psm0 for my mouse, tho, I have to keep my keyboard active during the probes at boot time...especially right after my hard disks are identified. The easiest way to do this is to just keep pressing the numlock key and watch the light. If I forget to do that, I've got to use another terminal to get into the system so I can shut it down gracefully. This is only supposed to be a problem with some Phoenix BIOS', I'm told. It didn't do it with a CompuDyne with an AMI BIOS I had at work once. Yes, there's been an XFree86 driver for the mach32 since XFree86 2.1 (when I used FreeBSD 1.0.2). -- -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=- kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu