From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 13:40:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17685 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webfarm1.whistle.com (webfarm1.whistle.com [207.76.204.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17676 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by webfarm1.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09082 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:40:26 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: webfarm1.whistle.com: smap set sender to using -f Received: from alpo.whistle.com(alpo.isp.whistle.com 207.76.204.38) by webfarm1.whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009079; Fri, 23 Jan 98 13:40:11 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11240; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd011238; Fri Jan 23 13:24:35 1998 Message-ID: <34C909C9.2781E494@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:21:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: nrrobins@eos.ncsu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 qu[Destions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 nrrobins@eos.ncsu.edu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Neill Robins an I am new to FreeBSD. I have someone helping > > me get setup but I have 2 questions that I was curious about. > > 1) Does FreeBSD support and AGP graphics card? > > XFree86 does not support AGP cards at this time. FreeBSD could care less. > :) what he means is the Freebsd could NOT care less.. (Americans destroying the language again you know..) support for video cards is supplied by a separate free sotware group (the XFree86 group) who supply X servers for all the '86 based Unices. Thus we support whatever they support. (same as Linux) there is also Xinside (xi) who have some server that the free group do not. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major