From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 10:56:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.nks.net (ra.nks.net [208.226.218.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBC837B586 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joeo@cracktown.com) Received: from localhost (joeo@localhost) by ra.nks.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24429; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:56:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:56:27 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: joeo@ra.nks.net To: Matthew Studley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3dfx chipset In-Reply-To: <20000627164653.15729.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 For 2d graphics the voodoo 5 is supported by the coming XFree86 4.0.1 release, I don't believe there are any prebuilt binaries for FreeBSD that support this, though the CVS tree at dri.sourceforge.net should contain a working 2d driver. 3D acceleration needs the new glide at glide.sourceforge.net ported to freebsd, as well as some work on the dri components. IIRC glide3 for the Voodoo5 on linux is only has dri support. Network adapters... Intel EEPro 100's are good. Cheaper is one of the fa310tx based cards (available retail branded Netgear PCI 10/100 adapters). On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Matthew Studley wrote: > First of all, I have a Voodoo 5 5500 video adapter on my system. Will this > be fully compatible with the X Window system? Also, I have had a lot of > problems with Unix/Linux and network cards in the past. What network cards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message