Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:57:38 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <4.1.19981229125311.00c42eb0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <36890587.637B0642@airnet.net> References: <Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> <4.1.19981219173154.06b97f10@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981221204651.00acf510@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 10:38 AM 12/29/98 -0600, Kris Kirby wrote: >Drew Baxter wrote: >> If you can get 85+% of the software on the market to work on FreeBSD, and >> support my Voodoo2 card, I'll switch.. > >If you must, boot Windows. That's what I've been doing. For some odd >reason, Windows seems to be one of those "If it ain't broke, don't fix >it" situations. At least thats been my experience. Oh, don't get me >started on networking Windows. :-) Well see, we have a topology of windows machines here.. That's just how it is. In my house there's 6 machines alone, then bridged from OneEX/Bangor to OneEX/OCSNet, and there's another 30 there. One of the objectives of the house network is gaming, as well as printing and mp3, and other file sharing. I also test products for Intel, and a few other companies, most of which say "Windows 95 or better" for requirements. >Course, when you go from vid_mode 0 to vid_mode 12 (320x200 to 640x480 >for you non-Quake people) then to GL... (For non-Quake people: 640x480 >3D rendered.) I have a Voodoo2, but I'm not holding my breath. <HINT> It >would be real nice if Luigi's driver had no audio delay and had mmap() >support. </HINT> I ger 48.1 fps at 640x480 in GLQuake.. Not bad.. Canopus Pure 3dII Overclocked (They gave me a fan with it, figured I might as well try to wreck the board). I'd imagine it'd perform a tad better if it wasn't running Windows, but too lazy to take the trek and install X on the machine down there to find out. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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