Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it

Caio Figueiredo Abecia caioabecia at yahoo.com.br
Wed Aug 15 06:12:53 PDT 2007


Yes..
Sadly the last snapshot doesn't work either.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
To: "Caio Figueiredo Abecia" <caioabecia at yahoo.com.br>
Cc: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it


> Caio Figueiredo Abecia wrote:
>> It seems to be a problem only on Dell E521/C521 Dimension models.
>>
>>
>> Here are some of the places that I found talking about the same errors 
>> I'm having :
>> ttp://blog.caraldi.com/jbq/2006/11/30/dont-buy-the-dell-e521-and-c521-computers/
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113130
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/106960
>> http://www.nabble.com/bin-40260-%22No-cd-dvd-devices-found!%22-t4025257.html
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/40260
>>
>> Even in NetBSD I still have the same problem.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response Bill.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" 
>> <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>> To: "Caio Figueiredo Abecia" <caioabecia at yahoo.com.br>
>> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it
>>
>>
>>> In response to "Caio Figueiredo Abecia" <caioabecia at yahoo.com.br>:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a new pc.
>>>> I had a problem installing BSD (Free/Open/Net!) with the Dell Dimension 
>>>> C521n. (Free/Open BSD website tells me that it support the E521 that 
>>>> have the same configuration)
>>>> It don't recognize my dell usb keyboard and my SATA DVD Rom drive was 
>>>> not detected at all.
>>>
>>> I have an Dell Optiplex GX520 here at work that runs FreeBSD 6.2 just 
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bill Moran
>>> http://www.potentialtech.com
>    Sounds like a chipset issue. Have you tried using a CURRENT snapshot 
> CD?
> -Garrett
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