*BSD News Article 39411


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:08:42 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <3cj6oa$7l1@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <60.10007.5307.0N1C354A@canrem.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu

In article <60.10007.5307.0N1C354A@canrem.com>,
Barnaby Ng <barnaby.ng@canrem.com> wrote:
>In acticle <3ccov7$m9p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu
>(Nate Williams) wrote:-
>
>>>ATI Graphic Turbo with 2MB VRAM (Mach64 chipset, VL bus version)
>>>Adaptec 2842VL SCSI host (AIC7770 chipset, VL bus version)

>I guess I should say "does it work well" instead. For example, I know my
>Mach 64 "works" under Linux (X), but only under non-accelarated mode,
>and unable to support 1024x768x16M. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Since all of the free unices use the same X server, you'll get the same
results from all of them with regards to X.  If a piece of hardware is
supported by the XFree86 team in one OS, it's supported (or
not-supported) in all the others.


Nate
-- 
nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu     |  FreeBSD dude and all around tech.
nate@cs.montana.edu          |  weenie.
work #: (406) 994-5980       |  Unemployed, looking for permanant work in
home #: (406) 586-0579       |  CS/EE field.