From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 10 10:13: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A70537B402 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g1AIBjlg021296; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:11:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020210130517.00c41538@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:12:43 -0500 To: jacks@sage-american.com, Rick Hamell , Shawn Halloran From: Scott Subject: Re: Aarghh !! Cc: freebsd-newbie In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020210113655.0195ca18@mail.sage-american.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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