Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:14:16 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Harry Veltman <veltman@intergate.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.5 hardware support Message-ID: <4635EBA8.8000306@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070430011349.GB30832@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000501c78aca$c22797b0$1bc494ce@intergate.com> <20070430011349.GB30832@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 29 April 2007 at 17:56:23 -0800, Harry Veltman wrote: >> Does 5.5 support my ELSA GLoria Synergy 8 MByte, Driver version 5.36.00.382, >> OpenGL version 1.1 2.01.14.128 video card? I purchased and installed >> version 4.8 several years ago, but it didn't seem to like the video card. > > This is more likely to be a question of X support, right? Agreed. If the ELSA card supports VESA, than one ought to be able to get at least a minimal graphic environment working, albeit without hardware acceleration for 3D/OpenGL. > In any case, FreeBSD 5.5 is no longer supported. It isn't? Perhaps someone should update the list of "Production Releases" on www.freebsd.org's home page, then. :-) -- -Chuck
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