From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 19 18:36:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09905 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 18:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09871 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 18:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA24937; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:56:48 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199805200026.JAA24937@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Eivind Eklund cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People having problems with X windows? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 10:58:30 +0200." <19980519105830.21543@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:56:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > given instructions on what regions to set for WC when using a 3Dfx card. > > I don't have anymore info tho :( > Ah, Linux is returning to its config.sys roots - "specifying windows > for WC" sounds like re-introducing the pre-historic concept of people > doing exact hardware fiddling for things they shouldn't have to know, > now also including PCI-cards. :-( Since WC is a fairly new feature, then I can see there poiint :) Personally I like it that way, but it would be nice if there was a card list and a program which had a guess at the card you had and looked it up in the file to get the suggested settings for it.. But since it doesn't exist, a program to do it manually will do for now :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message