From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 22:43: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cs.waikato.ac.nz (taupo.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B4637B43E for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA16487; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:42:46 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:42:46 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel To: "Tyson N. Trebesch" Cc: Rich Wales , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Memory sizing, AGP video card Message-ID: <20000818174246.C4248@cs.waikato.ac.nz> References: <200008172087162.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from trebesch@mcn.net on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:09:41PM -0600 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... powered by FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:09:41PM -0600, Tyson N. Trebesch wrote: > I've never had very good luck with Dell OptiPlex GXfoo-type boxes. The > CS Department I did systems work for had some, as did a Multimedia Lab I > worked for, and the OptiPlex series tended to be problematic because of > all the on-board devices like ethernet cards, video cards, and sound > cards. Cannot confirm this. As I am typing I am sitting at a GX1, which has served me well for 1 1/2 years. We have serveral of those, also running Linux. No idea why they would not work for you. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8585095 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message