From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 21:09:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12141 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (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 VAA12113 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA29966; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: baden@lords.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undocumented? In-Reply-To: <199805251816.NAA16332@wpg-03.escape.ca> 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, 25 May 1998 baden@lords.com wrote: > Hello, > As I am unable to download the entire FreeBSD handbook I was > searching for specific hardware compatabilities. I was unable to retrieve > any video card h/w specs - could you please email these to me, as well, I > couldn't find whether or not FreeBSD will be compatable with an ASUSTek > P2L97 LX motherboard w/ PII 333 - the board has an AGP slot; does FreeBSD > support an AGP video card? XFree86 sees it as a PCI card so it should work fine. > What about video features supported: ie. I will be connecting a > cable modem to my system and will also like to have live video feeds. > Will the OS support channel-changer-style video cards or will this fall > under the X-Windows features. Yes, make sure you grab a Bt848 based board -- see http://www.freebsd.org/~ahasty/Bt848.html. 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