Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-03-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:39:22PM +0100, Goncalves, Antonio wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I would like to use the FreeBSD as the OS of my new Laptop, > instead of SUse. > > It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish > release shall I install? Generally you

Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-03-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Goncalves, Antonio wrote: It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have less problems with the i386 version. There are even

Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-03-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Goncalves, Antonio wrote: It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have less problems with the i386 version. There are even nVidia binary drivers for FreeBSD, but you must che

Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-02-25 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Sonntag, 25. Februar 2007 10:10 schrieb Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri: > On 2/25/07, Philip Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In the past on a P4 chip I would put pentium4 in the cputype > >parameter in /etc/make.conf but are there any other settings here I > >can adjust or any by

Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-02-25 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 2/25/07, Philip Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the past on a P4 chip I would put pentium4 in the cputype parameter in /etc/make.conf but are there any other settings here I can adjust or any by using sysctl. I'm using CPUTYPE?=prescott amd it's safe, nocona broke my kernel.