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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Bt848 on P55T2P4-P100oc
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199705130224.TAA14764@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at May 12, 97 07:24:45 pm
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why limit this to bt848?
a similar database for smp
and for motherboards/systems ingeneral would be a great
contribution to freebsd

please do not limit this to bt848

we can host it at freebsd.org once it is ready

jmb

Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> Could any web techie take over Randall's request?
> The end product should be placed in the Bt848 Web Page.
> 
> 	Tnks,
> 	Amancio
> 
> 
> 
> >From The Desk Of Randall Hopper :
> > Amancio Hasty:
> >  |This is useful information . I think that what we ought to do is collect
> >  |a few system configurations and publish them in the Bt848 page.
> > 
> > Sounds like a good idea.  I'm sure it'd help the many monitors of our list
> > with their future purchases.
> > 
> > We need a thorough form for folks to fill in before we start gathering
> > data.  Could easily be an HTML form on the multimedia page (would save list
> > traffic and subsequent collation), and could then be more easily massaged
> > into an HTML table, also for web posting/browsing.
> > 
> > As for form fields, here's a first stab (focusing on multimedia):
> > 
> >    HARDWARE:
> >                     Motherboard: (Make/Model/Vers)
> >                      MB Chipset: 
> >                             CPU: (Make & speed)
> >               Overclocks tested: (CPU/Mem/PCI)
> >                      System Mem: (Type/Speed)
> >                      Video Card: (Make/Model, Mem/MemType)
> >                         TV Card: (Make/Model) [anything else ?]
> >                      Sound Card: (Make/Model)
> >                     Other Cards:
> >                        Comments:
> > 
> >    SOFTWARE:
> >                      XFree Vers: 
> >             Color depths tested: 
> > 
> > 
> > Randall
> > 
> 
> 
>