Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:33:17 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Got a new server, installing FreeBSD on it Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020326214528.01de06e0@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpr8m7wq2m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com>
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At 05:01 AM 3/26/2002, you wrote: >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. To be fair, my troubles with FreeBSD hardware compatibility were largely in the pre-3.0-RELEASE days. I had some quirky ISA cards--a network card, a sound card with an attachment for a proprietary CD-ROM--that were difficult to configure under Windows; getting them to work in FreeBSD was out of the question. When I got to the point that I started purchasing my own hardware components, everything was chosen to be FreeBSD-compatible from the outset. So I didn't encounter any difficulties after that, partly because FreeBSD supported more hardware, but partly because I paid more attention to compatibility up front. Nowadays it seems that most major vendors' cards are supported in both network and video. PCI has eased a lot of the pain of ISA. Plug-and-Play has made everyone's life much easier. But I would still check the compatibility lists before I threw FreeBSD/XFree86 at my cutting-edge hardware. << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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