From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 28 22:20:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7A937B404 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp150.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.150]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0T6Joc03428; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010128123015.A25016@blue.seas.upenn.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:36 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Ted Stein Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 5000 Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Jan-01 Ted Stein wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone has (or knows of anyone who has) had success > installing and running FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 5000. I'll include some of > the specs for informative purposes: PIII-750MHz, 128mb RAM, ATI Rage > Mobility-P, ESS Maestro-2e sound, 3com FEM656T (10/100+56k) PC card. I tried > installing Linux (*gasp*) only because the machines I administer are Linux - > but now I've once again given up on Linux and am going back to BSD. Any help > on this matter would be appreciated. Please reply directly back to me, since > at the moment I am not subscribed to the list. > > Many thanks, > > Ted Stein > tstein@seas.upenn.edu Is this a 5000e? That is what I have, and it runs current and X 4.0.2 just fine (in 1600x1200 no less): FreeBSD laptop.baldwin.cx 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #299: Fri Jan 26 18:13:47 PST 2001 john@laptop.baldwin.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/LAPTOP i386 Note that apm won't work due to its buggy APM BIOS, though ACPI kind of works in -current. pccard works fine, but cardbus in -current doesn't work at the moment. The sound card works fine, and in -current you can even use the volume buttons to control the sound. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #299: Fri Jan 26 18:13:47 PST 2001 john@laptop.baldwin.cx:/usr/src/sys/compile/LAPTOP ... CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (696.97-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff real memory = 134152192 (131008K bytes) avail memory = 125644800 (122700K bytes) ... VESA: v2.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc03a8f62 (1000022) VESA: ATI MOBILE M3 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf50 acpi0: on motherboard ... pcic-pci0: at device 4.0 on pci0 pcic-pci0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC p ci int + CSC serial isa irq] pcic-pci1: at device 4.1 on pci0 pcic-pci1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [ring enable][speaker enable][pwr save][FUNC p ci int + CSC serial isa irq] ... pcm0: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 ... pcic0: at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 irq 10 on isa0 pcic0: management irq 10 pccard0: on pcic0 pccard1: on pcic0 ... Your 3com card is probably cardbus, so it probably won't work atm, but I'm not sure. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message