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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!winternet.com!news2.interlog.com!nntp.uio.no!news.kth.se!tybalt.admin.kth.se!merope.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing on a notebook, urgent help, please. Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:59:59 +0200 Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4v2gff$s2e@electra.saaf.se> References: <YTSUJI.96Jul29182250@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> <4u0a23$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se In article <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp>, Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji <ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp> wrote: > | > |> The display shows fine until it shows the hard drive > |> is properly recognized, and then the screen sort of > |> blacks out; the hard drive keeps on running; as I hit > |> the keyboard blindly "root", CRLF, and then "echo ^G", > | > |You probably need to find out about the video chipset first. > | > |-- > |cheers, J"org > | > |joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > |Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > | >I never heard of a video chipset for notebooks. They are >all for Brown tube monitors. There's no mention of video >chips in the hardware manual, either. > I wonder if anyone ever managed to install FreeBSD on a >notebook computer. YES! I have 2.2 SNAP (may) running on my Supra Multiva and it works nice! I got EVERYTHING running as i should. IDE-CDrom, Soundblaster and PCMCIA cards. (The PCMCIA needs a separat package and a patch). I have X-insides X-server to be able to take gain of the CirrusLogic graphics card. gh@raditex.se >Thanks. > >Tsuji >-- > Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji > e-mail to: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp > http://www.yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Göran Hasse gh@raditex.se Tel: +46 8 7730148 Raditex AB http://www.raditex.se Fax: +46 8 7730902 Box 38 Minicall: 0740-167443 138 21 ÄLTA, SWEDEN