Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT From: "Steve Hodgson" <steve@shodgson.org.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Message-ID: <8995963969-BeMail@>
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Sorry to be still hammering on about this problem - I am starting to feel a bit dense. I've tried a few times now to get FreeBSD running a GUI with my Voodoo 3500 AGP card. Thanks to some helpful advice from questions@freebsd.org I reckon that I should be able to get things running using the tdfx X-server. Other advice is that if my card ain't listed explicitly, it won't work. Longer term, a carefully-chosen card will be a great solution - at this point though I just want to try things out and the number of cards that will run BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and/or Windows (this last reluctantly) seems a little limited. As an aside one of the problems here is that BeOS now seems happier with *old* graphics cards (one of the problems that got me looking for the ONE OS in the first place). When I try to run the tdfx driver I am still unable to complete X Windows installation successfully so I suspect that it really may be a case of having to specify a specific card for a trouble free GUI. Just as an experiment I stuck on the latest Mandrake 9.0; in half an hour and I was up and running Gnome 2.0 with no problems whatsoever using a generic Voodoo driver. Am I being stupid in thinking that this is the same XFree86=3F I really don't want to go down a Linux route, I've been burned too many times there in the past. Any expertise greatly welcome at this point. cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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