ultra 10 support

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 30 07:48:41 PDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:18:33AM -0400, satadru at umich.edu wrote:
> I am currently running debian on my ultra 10 box.  I have a couple of 
> questions that I need taken care of before I can decide whether to try 
> FreeBSD.  The docs for 5.0 say there are some issues with the IDE 
> controller on this machine.  Will 5.0-current let me boot off of the hard 
> drive?

Yes it will.
 
> Will I be able to use X with the Creator3D card and the ATI card builtin to 
> my machine?

Not yet.

> Should I just wait until FreeBSD 5.1?

Depends on what you do with the machine. :-)  It works great for
everything as long as you're satisified with a serial console.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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