From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 1 10:30:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08052 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08033 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.205]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18282; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:23:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA26321; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:23:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:23:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: Francisco Reyes cc: Darryl Okahata , "Andrew V. Stesin" , John Fieber , FreeBSD doc Mailing list Subject: Re: Hardware compatibility list. Second round. In-Reply-To: <199606011641.QAA56153@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > After getting some feedback about what to include in a hardware compatibility list > here is what I would like to propose. > > Information to be collected: > -Version of FreeBsd tried on > -Computer:make,model,cpu,cpu speed, amount of RAM, motherboard, bios and revision, > busses(eg ISA, VESA, PCI), chipset > -Video:make,model,bus type,resolution > -Harddrive:make,model,HD type > -Soundcard:make,model,options > -Cdrom:make,model,bus type > -Monitor:make,model,size,resolution > -Network card:make,model,network protocol > -Use of computers and how many clients are supported Comment: Many folks have a computer made of parts bought here and there. If you don't allow folks to spec the motherboard, well, they can't very well give a name to a 'computer'. Spec'ing the motherboard counts a lot more nowadays than specing the vendor it was bought from. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------