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by **Richard Ingr** » Fri, 16 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Hello,

I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
there any gotchas that I should be aware of with FreeBSD on this setup ?
I know I'll have to get the X S/W from Caldera (I think). How about the
rest of the system ? Has anyone installed FreeBSD on a Gateway PPRo box ?

Thanks for any help,

Richard.

S/W Engineer, Tel +44 973 814540
SMS +44 973 814540

by **steve farrel** » Fri, 16 Aug 1996 04:00:00

> Hello,

> I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
> 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
> there any gotchas that I should be aware of with FreeBSD on this setup ?
> I know I'll have to get the X S/W from Caldera (I think). How about the
> rest of the system ? Has anyone installed FreeBSD on a Gateway PPRo box ?

yeah -- no problems but you'll need XInside's Accelerated X (as you
alluded to.) you'll probably want to use the following for ordering, etc:
http://www.xinside.com/. i think in the freebsd-current mailing list
someone had some problems (bill paul?) with the cdrom being the
master ide on the secondary controller ... i, however, had no such
difficulty with a similar setup. of course, SCSI is always better...

--steve farrell

Quote:
> Thanks for any help,

> Richard.

> S/W Engineer, Tel +44 973 814540
> SMS +44 973 814540

by **Brian Some** » Thu, 22 Aug 1996 04:00:00

: Hello,

: I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
: 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
: there any gotchas that I should be aware of with FreeBSD on this setup ?
: I know I'll have to get the X S/W from Caldera (I think). How about the
: rest of the system ? Has anyone installed FreeBSD on a Gateway PPRo box ?

I havn't tried, but I've been pricing PPro200s - get a Dell XPS Pro 200n.
It costs almost #600 less ! If you can wait a week and a half, ask me
how it performs then !

The only GOTCHA is that you can't use X without X-Insides (proprietry)
X server - there's another company that produce an X server for Matrox,
but I can't remember their name. Get them to put a #9 in there instead
(or buy a Dell).

--

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....

by **Mika Ruohot** » Tue, 27 Aug 1996 04:00:00

>: I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
>: 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
>The only GOTCHA is that you can't use X without X-Insides (proprietry)
>X server - there's another company that produce an X server for Matrox,

another thing is the Intel made feature into the chipset on your
motherboard killing the PCI performance... try to run ANY serious
graphics on the screen simultaneously and you'll see... i would
assume any serious SCSI gets jammed too...

and the PCI feature comes with both 440 and 450 series chipsets as
far as i know... anyone with better information feel free to
correct... yes, i wish someone would correct me and tell me the
pro chipsets finally _do_ work...

*shrug*

mickey

by **Charles Henri** » Tue, 27 Aug 1996 04:00:00

>>: I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
>>: 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
>>The only GOTCHA is that you can't use X without X-Insides (proprietry)
>>X server - there's another company that produce an X server for Matrox,
>another thing is the Intel made feature into the chipset on your
>motherboard killing the PCI performance... try to run ANY serious
>graphics on the screen simultaneously and you'll see... i would
>assume any serious SCSI gets jammed too...
>and the PCI feature comes with both 440 and 450 series chipsets as
>far as i know... anyone with better information feel free to
>correct... yes, i wish someone would correct me and tell me the
>pro chipsets finally _do_ work...

The PPRO in my Micron works just peachy doing graphics work.

-Crh
--

http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich

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