From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 13:13:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB9C15174 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:13:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990427201529.BTDM6531620.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:15:29 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: lasta@nostroid.force9.co.uk Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:13:32 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: vid cards for x-windows/freebsd (was Re: A question) Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <37261994.95A76F81@nostroid.force9.co.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990427201529.BTDM6531620.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Apr 99, at 21:09, lasta@nostroid.force9.co.uk wrote: > I have been reading the links from FreeBSD and it sounds like a good > system to have.I would like to find out more about it before I buy it. > Hence this question. I hope you know that you can try it before you buy it? In fact, you don't have to buy it. If you can download the 23M or so for the first install. If not, well, yes, perhaps buying the CDs are your best bet. > X windows system runs on top of the FreeBSD so in fact all the cards > supported by X windows system are supported by FreeBSD? Sorry, I can't help you with that. But probably someone else well. But I've renamed the topic so it reflects the question -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message