From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 18:27:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03113 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from chow.cisco.com (chow.cisco.com [171.69.1.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03086 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: raj@cisco.com Received: from rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com (rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com [171.69.113.50]) by chow.cisco.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id SAA07071 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:25:48 -0800 Received: from LOCALHOST.cisco.com (LOCALHOST.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com (8.6.8+c/CISCO.WS.1.1) with SMTP id SAA22285 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:25:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199703070225.SAA22285@rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com: Host LOCALHOST.cisco.com didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running on a Ascentia P50 CTS12? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 18:25:40 PST Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm looking at running FreeBSD and XFree86 on an AST Ascentia P50 CTS12. This system has a 12.1" screen (800x600). I talked to someone recently who ran this on the same AST Ascentia P50 but with a 11.3" screen and said he had no problems. (Surprisingly, he even had no problems running XFree86 3.1.2 on this eventhough it uses a GD7543 video chip which wasn't supported until 3.2 and even then supposedly still has some problems. He even tells me his system uses the same video chip. He tells me he used a compatible config and I have a copy of his config file.) This sounds good but I'm hesitating because I can't find any company which would allow me to return the system if it didn't work out. So... Given that someone has already run this on an AST Ascentia P50 with a smaller screen, what's the chance of my having problems on this newer model with a larger screen? I'm worried about possible minor changes in things like CDROM controllers, memory cache chips, etc. What do you think? /raj