From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 22:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F47C152EA for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA71230; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:06 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Fweep Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19991026050624.24668.qmail@nwcst323.netaddress.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Oct 1999, Fweep wrote: >Hey all. >I'm not on the mailing list. >I suddenly became interested in installing UNIX on my computer, after hearing >all the great things about it, and I'm wondering how it handles integrated >boards, such as integrated sound cards, integrated video cards, etc. Does >FreeBSD support this? This depends primarily on the chipset used for these boards. You can find more at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/notes.html. This is not the only source but it is the most stuff in one place. Basic VGA display shouldn't be a problem. For X windows and advanced video, you will have to go to www.xfree86.org. You might try a minimal binary install with kernel sources to test the waters. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells | "The just shall live by faith." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message