From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 12:32:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA11966 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11959 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA00965; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:32:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:32:33 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Scott Northcutt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway? In-Reply-To: <199512280701.CAA27262@nameserver.1stresource.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Scott Northcutt wrote: > Howdy folks, > Off hand, does anyone know about the FreeBSD track record of systems > from Gateway 2000. I've got a Gateway Pentium 75 (40M RAM, 300M partition > for BSD, PCI, unsure of exact graphics card) at work which is fairly > successfully running 2.1 but not X yet. If anyone else has gotten a Gateway > to go (particularly X with the ps2 type mouse), please pass along any do's, > don'ts, hints and caveats. Thanks! > virtual regards, > --J. Scott Northcutt I have had good luck with a couple of GW2K's. I have a P4D-66 with 64MB RAM & 2 Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers as a news server and a P5-90 with 64MB RAM and 1 2940 as our site's main timesharing system. FreeBSD 2.0.5 installed on both without problems. Both systems have been solid -- the 486 has been running for over a year now, and the Pentium has been running since July -- except for a problem I created on the 486 due to an apparent incompatibility between two different SCSI drives on the same SCSI bus. With both systems, I was able to run X with a kernel configured to recognize the PS/2-style mouse without any problems. I did have trouble with keyboard lockups on the 486 when I was using FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, but I haven't noticed the problem under 2.x. Unfortunately, we don't have any better luck with Gateway tech support than anyone else even though we're only a couple hours up I-29 from the factory... (We have a lot of GW2K machines for our Windows users) Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu