From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 17:48:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2891216A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B625E43D31 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:48:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (localhost.cs.earlham.edu [127.0.0.1]) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5UHmPM0055052 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:48:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: (from skylar@localhost) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.12.11/8.12.9/Submit) id i5UHmOwt055051; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:48:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.cs.earlham.edu: skylar set sender to skylar@quark.cs.earlham.edu using -f Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:48:24 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20040630174824.GB54215@quark.cs.earlham.edu> References: <40DF06A0.10801@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40DF06A0.10801@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Sender: "Skylar Thompson" X-Accept-Primary-Language: en X-Accept-Secondary-Language: es SMTP-Mailing-Host: quark.cs.earlham.edu X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE X-Uptime: 12:41PM up 12 days, 9:26, 14 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.16, 0.15 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled May 19 2004 13:14:50) X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: skylar@cs.earlham.edu cc: 3BSD cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forgot to add... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Skylar Thompson List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:48:48 -0000 --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:40:48PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 3BSD wrote: > >One thing I forgot to add to be previous e-mail about hardware > >compatibility was that I'm using the DVI port of my graphics card, > >connected to an LCD display, will that pose any problems? >=20 > Generally not. To the extent that your configuration of video card and= =20 > monitor can be treated as a generic (s)VGA display, FreeBSD will be=20 > plug-and-play for text mode (booting, console), and will also work=20 > genericly under X11. >=20 > Getting 3D hardware support going for fast OpenGL stuff, and/or doing a= =20 > multimonitor display mode are more complicated questions, but generally o= ne=20 > can get such things working after more tweaking and time spent on your pa= rt. In the previous message, he mentioned using an nVidia geForce4. I've had good experiences with a geForce2 in my FreeBSD 5-RELEASE box. nVidia has a driver you can download from their website for FreeBSD, and I haven't had any problems with it. --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4vzosc4yyULgN4YRApoBAKCRL5MNJPMD9jRkbQbRdJ6bdk3dhACgr4iR VMQlAAz8hdh+3mDFi086O+U= =BT0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--