Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:38:59 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross <graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> To: "James P. Brewster" <web-designs@virtual-net.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971022093648.26663A-100000@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <344C5C97.BA094A0D@virtual-net.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, James P. Brewster wrote: > I have free/bsd installed on my laptop, but I cannot access the internet > because free/bsd does not come with any compatible drivers for my modem. > I have a U.S Robotics/Megahertz XJ1560 56k. modem. If you have any > suggestions please let me know?? Also I can only use a generic driver > for my video card, it is a Neo Magic possibly made by Yamaha? If you > have any suggestions for that also please notify me!! > If it's a NeoMagic chip set, you are very limited in the options that you have because NeoMagic have chosen to travel down the proprietary path, and will not release information to the XFree developers (or anyone else developing software with freely available source code). Choices? As far as I know, you are limited to the standard 16 colour VGA driver. Not pretty. This may have changed with XFree86 3.3? Cheers Graeme - -- Graeme Cross Water Studies Centre, Monash University http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ Random thought #53 There's more than one way to skin a cat: #27 - Use an electric sander. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Auto-signed by PPG (v1.01) (the PGP/PINE gateway) iQB1AwUBNE09EGAiycRwLbVJAQHYwQMAiKySPXHXAgySWsiqRBJj9iR/0QfjPvyr KRNQ0E4n3R0esOfrMdsTuoykq3XlBo1hpX1s9+LmWluJJFRsVoYVDIIsxhzfokzq Sq+S2aihMvMpANmANXWCmQ4WH1lFaaJ4 =70sg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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