From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:41:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03971 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03958 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26416; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:41:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jochen Solbrig cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: want to try freebsd In-Reply-To: <34F1F73E.41C6@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> 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 Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Jochen Solbrig wrote: > I already tried out three different versions of linux. > now I want to try out freebsd, but I have some questions: > 1. is my pnp-soundcard (sb compat.) supported (recompile the kernel) ? Will be in 2.2.6, due Real Soon, oryou can add the PnP patches fromthe 2.2.5 CD. > 2. is there a magic filter for printing documents ? You have to install apsfilter from the ports tree but it's a pretty clean installation. (No doubt RedHat or whoever has that uses it.) > 3. which x servers run on freebsd It's the same as Linux -- XFree86. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message