From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 22:24:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h209-17-128-144.gtconnect.net (h209-17-128-144.gtconnect.net [209.17.128.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 549A137B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brent@justbrent.net) Received: (qmail 23126 invoked by uid 1001); 30 May 2001 05:27:11 -0000 Received: from h24-76-109-116.vc.shawcable.net (HELO cr565151-a.vc.shawcable.net) (24.76.109.116) by h209-17-128-144.gtconnect.net with SMTP; 30 May 2001 05:27:11 -0000 From: Brent Rector Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 05:27:00 GMT Message-ID: <20010530.5270044@cr565151-a.vc.shawcable.net> Subject: Re: can I install a trident card in my 815 Intel machine for X ? To: Keith Spencer , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010530052204.11338.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010530052204.11338.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Win32) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) 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 Keith, Please see below.... ;) > Hi all, > just another of my thousands of questions! You are all > very patient with me. Thanks > I have an 815 chipset celeron machine with FBSD 4.2 > and I want to install X windows...it seems near > impossible if not very problematic according to this > list. > I have a Trident TGUI9440 card handy! maybe I am > better off installing it in the machine and trying to > install X? Now for my questions. Better to be > fore-armed. > a) If I insert the card will the CMOS have to be > changed? No. > b) If I install X will it be able to detect the > trident card ok and present few hassles.. Should be fairly easy for install. For a start point just use the SVGA=20= generic install > c) Anything else or traps I should be aware of? None that I can think ok. > Many thanks > Keith >=20 ________________________________________________________________________= __ ___ > http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger > - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots mo= re! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message