Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:12:43 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: jacks@sage-american.com, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, Shawn Halloran <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbie <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Aarghh !! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020210130517.00c41538@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020210113655.0195ca18@mail.sage-american.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202101016500.16265-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <OE42OcQUKoHXV91Wpqg00005ec9@hotmail.com>
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At 11:36 2002/02/10 -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >Indeed, that is true... If you know DOS, then you CAN learn this OS too... >hang in there! I remember you saying you had a voodoo5 or 5500 card--I know some people, including myself had troubles with this card, especially with an ASUS MB. I got it working semi-adequately by dropping back to XFree 3.x (which is included on the 4.4 release, and, IIRC also included on 4.5). My first attempts died in mid install--turned out that FreeBSD is more sensitive to bad hardware than some other O/S's (I'd been running Linux and Win2k--the hard drive was dying). The next batch of attempts were on another machine, the aforementioned Voodoo5 with an ASUS--however, by that time, I'd replaced the hard drive on the first machine and was beginning to see why it would be worth it. :) I won't say search deja for questions about the Voodoo5500 because most of what comes back now are my posts to questions. :0-( However, as others are saying, hang in there, it is worth it. A couple of other gotchas--I've found for an Intellimouse, setting protocol to Auto works best--also, if you're using a KVM, at present, at least, you have to have the switch on that machine from bootup through starting X, otherwise the mouse goes all out of sync. Hang in there Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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