From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 26 13:31:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (kauket.visi.com [209.98.98.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC18237BEE8 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfb@visi.com) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C736CE; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:31:28 -0500 (CDT) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about hardware support From: James Felix Black Date: 26 Jul 2000 15:31:28 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm going to be buying a new system (Athlon Thunderbird) to run FreeBSD (and Windows for gaming.) I have a couple of hardware questions. First, X. I'm trying to decide between the Voodoo5 and the GeForce 2. My concern is 2D quality and performance in X. Will both of these cards work? Neither? 3D X performance is meaningless to me. Also, I want very badly to use a Kensington Expert Mouse (a four button trackball) in X -- will I be able to use all four buttons? I've had problems in Linux before with the X server not distinguishing between various and sundry button events. SCSI. I assume that an Adaptec 39160 would work flawlessly -- yes? No? Issues? Finally, has anyone yet installed FreeBSD on a KT133 Athlon board before? If so, any recommendations? I'm looking at a FIC AZ11 currently. Thanks in advance, (jfb) -- My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message