Dell 8600 a bad choice
It has a USB floppy and I haven't been able to get X to work. I'm using 5.2.1. Any hints are appreciated. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 8600 a bad choice
--- Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has a USB floppy and I haven't been able to get X to work. I'm using 5.2.1. Any hints are appreciated. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to provide a little more hardware information such as graphics card and so forth. Was your card detected? Also there are at least 2 dell 8600's the laptop and the desktop/workstation. FYI: its always better to provide more information than needed rather than less info. = ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 8600 a bad choice
peter lageotakes wrote: --- Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has a USB floppy and I haven't been able to get X to work. I'm using 5.2.1. Any hints are appreciated. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to provide a little more hardware information such as graphics card and so forth. Was your card detected? Also there are at least 2 dell 8600's the laptop and the desktop/workstation. FYI: its always better to provide more information than needed rather than less info. = ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for replying. The video card is a 32Mb NVIDIA Geforce FX Go5200 Go card. I guess NVIDIA hasn't release a binary for this one yet. Also, its a laptop. Sincerely, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 8600 a bad choice
--- Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: peter lageotakes wrote: --- Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has a USB floppy and I haven't been able to get X to work. I'm using 5.2.1. Any hints are appreciated. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to provide a little more hardware information such as graphics card and so forth. Was your card detected? Also there are at least 2 dell 8600's the laptop and the desktop/workstation. FYI: its always better to provide more information than needed rather than less info. = ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for replying. The video card is a 32Mb NVIDIA Geforce FX Go5200 Go card. I guess NVIDIA hasn't release a binary for this one yet. Also, its a laptop. Sincerely, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are drivers in the ports collection: www.freebsd.org/ports nvidia-driver-1.0.4365_1 Also, www.nvidia.com has the binaries on their site. Here is another useful site: FreeBSD on Laptops http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html freebsd-mobile -- Mobile computing with FreeBSD http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Hope this helps. Pete = ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
