From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 16:28:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08119 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mental ([207.113.85.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08039 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by mental (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00242; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:27:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mental: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@mental Reply-To: spork To: Dustin Pika cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD AGP compatible??? In-Reply-To: <19980310224922.8057.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 On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Dustin Pika wrote: > To whomever feels they can answer either of my questions: > > > > I recently bought a new Pentium II based, Win95 PC. > Since Pentium II's feature AGP instead of PCI, will this > prevent me from being able to run FreeBSD on my PC??? > > Also, since FreeBSD and Linux are both non-commercial packages > of the Unix OS, is software interchangable between them. > I have seen some Linux applications that I am interested in, > but would like to know if they will work in FreeBSD first. > > Sincerly, > Dustin Pika > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hello. AGP (I believe) is an extension of the PCI bus. I am running a PII w/an AGP *video card*, but the rest of the system is PCI and ISA. It runs really nicely, I have a really nice X server running, and I have not had any problems with the PCI SCSI card (Aaptec 2940UW) that is also on the PCI bus. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good." --The Computer Contradictionary, Second Edition To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message