From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 26 22:55: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B4D37B5B2 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arubin@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi.concentric.net [206.173.118.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id BAA06101; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:54:51 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from r2d2 (w184.z064001133.chi-il.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.133.184]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id BAA20724; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:54:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004c01bff78f$f6f63da0$b8850140@r2d2> From: "Anthony Rubin" To: , "James Felix Black" References: Subject: Re: Questions about hardware support Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:00:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You may want to look into the Adaptec 19160 instead depending on your needs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Felix Black" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:31 PM Subject: Questions about hardware support > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message