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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Compatability question
Date: 26 May 1996 21:33:24 GMT
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rhiggins@earth.execpc.com (Ron Higgins) wrote:

> If anyone can see any compatability problems, I'd appreciate an e-mail to
> the address below.

>   EIDE controller

I don't see an IDE drive in your list, but just in case: use it in
``standard'' mode.

> Mouse: Microsoft Serial

X11 isn't really happy with 2-button mice.  There's an option to
emulate 3-button, but you'll be more happy with some native 3-button
mouse.

> UltraWide-SCSI Controller: Adaptec 2940UW

It's quite possible that the stock 2.1R system has problems with it.
(I've heard there were some problems, but don't know which controllers
are affected.)

Recent SNAPs should work better though.

> Matrox MGA Millenium PCI video card 4M WRAM

This one requires the commercial Xinside ``Accelerated X'' X-server.

> BackUPS400

Not yet supported under FreeBSD, though the ongoing UPS development
work was about to design a concept for BackUPS support.  (The BackUPS
is a dumb one.  SmartUPS'en are already supported.  For more
information, ask majordomo@ww.net for help.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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