From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 10:47:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06707 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06702 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA21125; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:46:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:46:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Jen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Me at Home <3moons@bway.net> Subject: Re: Forgive me...video card question... In-Reply-To: <35D2F459.D8CAF109@herzog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Halp...I'm about to defect from RedHat to FreeBSD based on pal's > suggestions...why? > > Nobody at Red Hat loves my videocard, it seems...endless problems...It's > a Real (that's the brand name--www.real3d.com) card, Starfighter AGP w/ > 8megs of RAM. The question is NOT whether FreeBSD supports it, but whether X supports it. Go to http://www.xfree86.org/ to see if it's supported. FreeBSD and RH both use XFree86 by default so if it doesn't work w/ RH it won't work w/ FreeBSD either. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." - Popular Science, 1891 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message