I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

[Nikolas Britton]

On 7/22/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well,
>
> it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake.
>
> They sent me the wrong computer.
>
> I don't understand why.  The item listed in my online order was
> clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached
> to the shipping box.
>
> Perhaps they have a literacy problem in their warehouse.
>
> At least the return was easy; I just took the box to my local
> Walmart and they accepted it and then put the correct credit
> on my credit card.
>
> Then, I went to Frys.
> I showed the spec of the Walmart machine that I wanted.
>
> They easily beat Walmart with an 'open-box' special which is
> a customer returned computer still under warranty.
>
> I got an HP Pavilion a1340n for about $500.
> It has 1G RAM,
> 250G HD,
> 1 R-W DVD drive
> and 1 R-O DVD drive.
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
>
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=1818054&dlc=&docname=c00575715
>
> It has an ATI grapics card but I'm not sure how to use
> a shell command to give me information about it.
>
> I looked at dmesg output and saw nothing about the grapics card.
>
> How might I get info about my graphics card?
>

Pop the case open and look at the chip, if it doesn't void the
warranty... It looks like it uses an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1818054&lang=en&docname=c00590356#
http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/radeonxpressmobo/intel775int.html



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