From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 22:18:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC61B37B71B for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:18:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010302061852.ZNPR811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:18:52 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f226JZm08295 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:19:35 -0600 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:19:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RIVA TNT2 AGP 16 MB Video Card quiestion an X-Server question. Message-ID: <20010302001935.B7552@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A9EE37F.821664EB@urx.com> <20010302002830.14289.qmail@web12503.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010302002830.14289.qmail@web12503.mail.yahoo.com>; from millioncheese@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:28:30PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:28:30PM -0800, Tyler McGeorge wrote: > This may seem like a strange question, and it is > relatively off topic...But I run a 4MB 2d only video > card in my FreeBSD machine, and even if I ran X, I > wouldn't need more. I maybe losing your context with > my prejudice that FreeBSD is, in general, used as a > server machine and not a user machine... If you were > to want a user machine, I would suggest Slackware > Linux over FreeBSD. I have to agree on this. Linux also has drivers for Nvidia cards which also work very well. Now if only a Linux distro would use something like ports... - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message