From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 10 11:24:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474AA37B8DA for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 11:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA10225; Wed, 10 May 2000 14:24:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:24:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: "Steven D. Meacham" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question re:dual processors In-Reply-To: <20000510.16461600@mis.configured.host> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From the Hardware FAQ: (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/hardware.html#AEN1108) Q: Does FreeBSD support Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)? A: SMP is supported in 3.0-STABLE and later releases only. As for your KDE display, it sounds like you are running in 256-color (8bpp) resolution. Run XF86Setup and try to increase your colors to 16 or 24 bpp (64k or 16M colors). This is assuming your video card can handle that much color. - M - On Wed, 10 May 2000, Steven D. Meacham wrote: > Hi > I need to know if there is special configuration required to support > dual processors in FreeBSD. I'm installing 4.0-Release according to > the install|options screens. The box has an Intel PR440FX mainboard > with dual pentium pro 180Mhz processors. Linux requires a kernal > rebuild to turn on support. > Also, if someone can advise me, I have another minor question. I've > noticed the FreeBSD KDE is not nearly as graphically clear and refined > as the KDE on Linux-Mandrake 7.0. By this, I mean that the graphics > are blockier, grainer and just look unprofessional. Is this something > that I did wrong in my setup, or what? > Thanks for your help... > Steven Meacham > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message