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#! rnews 2207 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!uniserve!oronet!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!southwind.net!usenet From: "Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@southwind.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installing on a notebook, urgent help, please. Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 21:39:19 -0500 Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <32168257.41C67EA6@southwind.net> References: <YTSUJI.96Jul29182250@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> <4u0a23$qnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <YTSUJI.96Aug14175102@suzuka.cfi.waseda.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: abcjr.southwind.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-960606-SNAP i386) Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji 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. > > Thanks. > > Tsuji > -- > Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji > e-mail to: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp > http://www.yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp Here is a URL that lists many Notebook Models and their corresponding chipsets: http://www.castle.net/X-notebook/notebook_video_chips.txt ---------------------------------------------------------- Arnold Cavazos, Jr. abcjr@southwind.net