From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 5:25: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4E037B423 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA80755; Fri, 18 May 2001 22:23:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <122101c0df95$87b94100$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "David S. Geirsson" Cc: References: <20010517093255.A1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> <0c0201c0dedf$5d4489e0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010517150549.C1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> <0c2901c0dee3$a2a83910$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010518091539.A1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> <11a701c0df8e$65bb55e0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010518114404.B1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> <11e701c0df90$c07e6f10$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010518115244.C1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> <120b01c0df92$5703a5d0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010518121233.D1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> Subject: Re: PS/2 troubles Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:24:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yep, that's true. I've been using FreeBSD for servers for a couple of months > now, and linux doesn't even compare. I just wanted to test running FreeBSD > as a workstation. As for soundcard support, that is true -- my laptop's > soundcard is not supported in FreeBSD, but then again, that's what he OSS > sound modules are for. Would be very willing to pay a few bucks for them, if > I get everything else to a useable state. > I get the impression that fripperies like X & sound aren't of much interest to FreeBSD developers. This doesn't concern me particularly because the X setup is inclined to be icky at best & very few config items have GUIs / soundanyway. I've been considering writing a couple of step_by_step HOWTOs on configuring X & configuring sound .... from looking through Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD" however it looks like more trouble than its worth. Might be best to leave FreeBSD to do what it does best & run Solaris when you want a proper unix GUI (its sound support is still fair to lousy though) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message