From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 10:18:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29570 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29554 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05254; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:21:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:21:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brett Glass cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway Solo: Is it known to run FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199605291906.NAA18289@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Brett Glass wrote: > Has anyone successfully run FreeBSD 2.0.1 or later on a Gateway Solo? This > machine has an 800x600 LCD driven by a C&T video chipset, and it won't > be worth running FreeBSD unless there are video drivers for this display. > I'd also be interested in finding out if the other peripherals behaved > properly, and if DOS emulation is stable enough to try on this platform. FreeBSD will work (it'll work with just about anything, it's text mode after all), but X may not. At minimum I would think the SVGA server could do something with it. Check the X information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major