From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 21 15:50:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3893337B405 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f93.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03D943EDA for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:46:54 -0800 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:46:54 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] From: "clayton rollins" To: steve@shodgson.org.uk Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo Graphics Cards Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:46:54 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Dec 2002 23:46:54.0775 (UTC) FILETIME=[3E01EC70:01C2A94B] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey Steve, Glad you decided to give BSD a try; you won't be disappointed. According to this list: http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ , your card should be supported with hardware acceleration. The card list under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/cards shows a listing and a driver, tdfx. I'm assuming that you're wondering because you want to install X. If this is the case, I've always found it pretty easy to just do a test setup using the tools in /stand/sysinstall. Go to the post-install configure, on the main menu and select XFree86, to start the setup. During the setup process, you'll be given a comprehensive listing from the card database. If your card's listed, it's supported; if not, not. The worst-case scenario is you'll end up with a junk XF86Config file in /etc/X11 or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. (Unless you clock your monitor wrong, or go out of your way to clock your card wrong...) As a side note, I have generally had no problems using "unsupported" cards. More often the constraint has been from monitor frequency rates. (My last one would only work in 320x200 mode with the proper vrefresh. However, I knew windows had underclocked the monitor previously, so I didn't think it was too dangerous to go 1 kHz out of spec. I guess I'll see, huh?) Anyways, Cheers, good luck, and all of that, Clayton PS. the newbies list isn't intended for questions. I don't much care, but in the future you might be better off sending any questions to the freebsd-questions list. (You'll definitely get more replies on that list, and someone might get mad at you for posting questions here.) >From: "Steve Hodgson" >To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Voodoo Graphics Cards >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:25:47 GMT > >I have been trying to fing out if a 3dfx voodoo 3500 AGP is compatible >with FreeBSD 4.7. I have managed to everything up to a successsful GUI >-free login. I checked out the various web resources and usenet with >no success. My FreeBSD book (FreeBSd Unleashed) doen't list the card >in the supported hardware. > >I have used the cadr succesfully with Linux, BeOS and Windows (not XP) >so assumed it would be OK under FreeBSD too. > >Any help and pointers would be much appreciated at this stage! > >Steve Hodgson _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 limited-time offer: Join now and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_newmsn8ishere_3mf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message