Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:55:36 -0700 (PDT) mell miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, > but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in > the past i've disregarded such questions th

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going > that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid > quesion but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking > they were unimportant or that the answer was obvious only to later re

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so. See: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html mell miller wrote: hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going > that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid > question but since in the past i've di

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
> Except that the Gatos drivers i general need an patched linux DRM kernel > module and/or at least the Video4Linux linux kernel subsystem. To my > knowledge freebsd doesn't support either. (Although I'm a bit outdated > since i gave up on gatos and ATI-tuners/video inn/out chipsetts about a > year

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread heikki soerum
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the ATI Raedon 7500 all in wonder, and finding out if the tv > > tuner works in freebsd or not has been quite fruitless so far. > > Google for gatos. Except that the Gatos drivers i general need an

RE: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
half Of > >> Kenneth Wayne Culver > >> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:03 PM > >> To: Rus Foster > >> Cc: mell miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: software/hardware question > >> > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > There

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
> Hi, > There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows > as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. > However I've found FreeBSD to work on 99% of the hardware I've chucked at > it without any problems. sometimes its take a bit of work to

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, mell miller wrote: > hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering > going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a > stupid question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions > thinking they were unimportant or that the