From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 05:29:30 2004 Return-Path: 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 450C916A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B999B43D1F for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=localhost.invalid) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AyWRF-0002ds-00; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 05:29:29 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:29:31 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403030729.31593.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b4b5dcdb3142498cd6392248fcfc20a88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: bradford fligor Subject: Re: Video Card Compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:29:30 -0000 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:06 am, bradford fligor wrote: > Thank you to all of you for your recent help on FreeBSD. > > > While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video > card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't find > it on the list of cards during install. In fact no ATI cards seem to be > listed. I should of brought that list with me. Did I buy an incompatible > card???? > > I did notice on the video card config page one line had something like > pci:1.0.1...... I know my card goes in an AGP slot not PCI. > > I was successful in installing Fedoro Linux yesterday! > > Thanks again for your great support!! > > Brad Both FreeBSD and Linux use XFree86 for its X Window environment. Video card compatibility is handled by XFree86. So, whether you're using Linux or one or FreeBSD, it might be good to bookmark the following page: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status.html For future purchases, it's also good to know that NVIDIA creates drivers for both Linux and FreeBSD. This has made my purchasing decisions very easy. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html