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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI support Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:57:27 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 41 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <4e8jqn$6m7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <nd4rawol1wb.fsf@burg.is.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg) In article <nd4rawol1wb.fsf@burg.is.ge.com>, burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg) writes: |> I will be getting a HP Vectra XM 5/120 at work. Windows 95 claims |> the following: |> |> Display: Cirrus Logic PCI The common Cirrus chips should be supported under XFree86. You'll have to find out, which accelerared X server to choose. |> Network: AMD PCNET family Ethernet Adapter (PCI&ISA) That's a Lance compatible chip, AFAIK. You'lll have to manually configure the port address and irq, but it should work. |> CMD PCI-0640 PCI to EDI Controller That one emulates an ISA IDE controller, and needs no PCI driver for this reason ... |> I could not find support for the Network card in the source, nor am I |> sure that the display card is supported by XF86. Just try lnc0 for the Ethernet driver, that should do ... |> Does anybody have more information on whther I can use this system to run |> FreeBSD 2.1R ? I'd say: YES, it will work. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>