From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 29 04:50:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20146 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 04:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA20131 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 04:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenry@white.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au) Message-Id: <199808291150.EAA20131@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Video Card for X Windows To: agudelo@ici.net (Carlos Agudelo) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:49:03 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01bdd33e$35239780$2416b4cf@default> from "Carlos Agudelo" at Aug 29, 98 07:14:36 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Incompatibility with the video card is not the fault of the operating system, it is the fault of the window system. (In this case, XFree86). The answer to your question can be found at: http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html#OtherOptions A list of chipsets supported by XFree86 can be found at: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/README3.html I recently purchased a video card for my computer, and I chose the S3 ViRGE because it was one card I knew XFree86 supported. I hope this has helped, Michael > Hello, > I am unable to setup X windows (using XF86Setup) under > FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my system(Cyrix 133, 32MB, 3.2 G with two > partitions FreeBSD/Win 95). I believe that is because I have > a video card that is not supported by FreeBSD (STB 95 - made > specifically for Windows 95) . I am planning on buying a > video card for my system, but I need one that is supported > by both Win 95 and FreeBSD 2.2.6. Are there any suggestions > on which video card I should purchase? > > Carlos > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message