From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 14: 2:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C962137B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from avalon.netcom.net.uk (avalon.netcom.net.uk [194.42.225.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB38643EB2 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@shodgson.org.uk) Received: from dialup-13-09.netcomuk.co.uk ([194.42.231.73] helo=smtp.netcomuk.co.uk) by avalon.netcom.net.uk with smtp (Exim 3.20 #3) id 18TqwL-00078V-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:02:18 +0000 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD From: "Steve Hodgson" Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT Message-Id: <8995963969-BeMail@> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to be still hammering on about this problem - I am starting to feel a bit dense. I've tried a few times now to get FreeBSD running a GUI with my Voodoo 3500 AGP card. Thanks to some helpful advice from questions@freebsd.org I reckon that I should be able to get things running using the tdfx X-server. Other advice is that if my card ain't listed explicitly, it won't work. Longer term, a carefully-chosen card will be a great solution - at this point though I just want to try things out and the number of cards that will run BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and/or Windows (this last reluctantly) seems a little limited. As an aside one of the problems here is that BeOS now seems happier with *old* graphics cards (one of the problems that got me looking for the ONE OS in the first place). When I try to run the tdfx driver I am still unable to complete X Windows installation successfully so I suspect that it really may be a case of having to specify a specific card for a trouble free GUI. Just as an experiment I stuck on the latest Mandrake 9.0; in half an hour and I was up and running Gnome 2.0 with no problems whatsoever using a generic Voodoo driver. Am I being stupid in thinking that this is the same XFree86=3F I really don't want to go down a Linux route, I've been burned too many times there in the past. Any expertise greatly welcome at this point. cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message