From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 12:03:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4BB37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA1F43FB1 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04118; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:03:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA11918; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:03:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11911; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:03:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:03:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Rus Foster In-Reply-To: <20030616195820.O98274@thor.65535.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: mell miller cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: software/hardware question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:03:17 -0000 > Hi, > There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows > as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. > However I've found FreeBSD to work on 99% of the hardware I've chucked at > it without any problems. sometimes its take a bit of work to but normally > it will be fine. If you let us know what sort of hardware you have got I'm > sure we can help you > Yeah, you should be fine as long as you don't expect 3d acceleration on the latest video cards. My ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, along with anything from 9500 up don't have 3d acceleration support, and anything later than a geforce 4 from nvidia is missing 3d support as well. Ken