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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!world1.bawave.com!news.clark.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4oain4$3ac@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nt0vf$6je@earth.alpha.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)