From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 26 3: 1:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721F837B416 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 6916A5346; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:01:21 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Got a new server, installing FreeBSD on it References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 26 Mar 2002 12:01:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip Morton writes: > The network cards didn't cause a problem--they usually just weren't > supported and didn't work. And some video cards have given me > headaches in trying to install XFree86, which is more of an issue with > XFree86 than FreeBSD, but it's a very fuzzy line when you're stuck for > hours. Even when the cards did work, getting the right linemode/clock > settings can be a big, fat PITA. Hopefully your experience will be > better. Network cards shouldn't be a problem, except for Cardbus PC-Cards, which aren't supported in -STABLE. What cards did you have trouble with? As for video cards, XFree86 4 almost always gets them right (use X --configure to generate a skeleton config), the only problem is (usually) to get the sync ranges right if your monitor isn't PnP; but even that is a breeze if you have the manual. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message