Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Tobias, > On Sunday, 18. March 2007 19:00, Thomas Leveille wrote: > > Am I the only one to find this stupid ? Why should you need a > browser > > in a server ? > > I sometimes depend on lynx to download stuff from sourceforge where > no direct > download link is supplied. I ran elinks, the t

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:19:22PM +0100, Tobias Weisserth wrote: > On Sunday, 18. March 2007 19:00, Thomas Leveille wrote: > > Am I the only one to find this stupid ? Why should you need a browser > > in a server ? > > I sometimes depend on lynx to download stuff from sourceforge where no direct

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, On Sunday, 18. March 2007 19:00, Thomas Leveille wrote: > Am I the only one to find this stupid ? Why should you need a browser > in a server ? I sometimes depend on lynx to download stuff from sourceforge where no direct download link is supplied. regards, Tobias W.

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Thomas Leveille
On 3/18/07, satimis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800 Mobo - ASUS M2N-E with onboard NIC, nVidia chipsets Vedio Card - ASUS EN7600 with nVidia chipsets I have been searching around for a 64 bit OS to run as server. [...] I'll install X and Xfce-4.2 as desktop.

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 3/18/07, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried nv driver on slamd64 before. It did not work. Anyway I'll try it on OpenBSD. Is OpenBSD LiveCD available? http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46539 It's not official but maybe it'll help? Andrey

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Renaud Allard
Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Jason, > > > Tks for your advice. > > - snip - > >> Your best option is to download a copy of cd40.iso from one of the >> FTP mirrors and boot up the install process. Choose the shell option >> >> and run 'dmesg' to see if all of your hardware is supported (compare

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Nick !
On 3/18/07, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sunnz, > Well then you could try OpenBSD with nv driver and see if that works > for you... I tried nv driver on slamd64 before. It did not work. Anyway I'll try it on OpenBSD. Is OpenBSD LiveCD available? OpenBSD doesn't do liveCDs. But

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:20:08 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Timo, > > Tks for your advice. you're welcome :) > - snip - > > > i have a similar setup here serving me as a low energy personal > > file, email server and misc task machine (i have an Athlon64 AM2 > > 3800+

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Sunnz, > If you need 3D graphics acceleration, no. > > But for a server I don't see why would you need so, can you specify > any particular need for 3D acceleration? No I don't need. Neither I do graphic editing on server. I can tolerate running X on incorrect resolution. My only problem w

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, Tks for your advice. - snip - > Your best option is to download a copy of cd40.iso from one of the > FTP mirrors and boot up the install process. Choose the shell option > > and run 'dmesg' to see if all of your hardware is supported (compare > > against the supported hardware

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Timo, Tks for your advice. - snip - > i have a similar setup here serving me as a low energy personal file, > email server and misc task machine (i have an Athlon64 AM2 3800+ EE > SFF > with 35 Watt power drawing maximum, and 2GByte Kingston ECC DDR2 > RAM). > > the first i did was to disabl

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Sunnz, > Well then you could try OpenBSD with nv driver and see if that works > for you... I tried nv driver on slamd64 before. It did not work. Anyway I'll try it on OpenBSD. Is OpenBSD LiveCD available? > You know how to configure X with xorg.conf, right? No problem. I did a lot of man

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Albert, > 1) Buy a supported video card I have no idea which chipset has no problem. > 2) Contact nvidia to let them know why you did so I don't think nvidia w/o knowledge of the driver problem on FreeBSD Pls refer to; http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=15 and http:/

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Sunnz
Well then you could try OpenBSD with nv driver and see if that works for you... You know how to configure X with xorg.conf, right? As for font size, you could change them in xfce-settings, right? Have you attempted doing so in all the systems that you have tried? 2007/3/19, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Sunnz
If you need 3D graphics acceleration, no. But for a server I don't see why would you need so, can you specify any particular need for 3D acceleration? 2007/3/19, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:08 AM, satimis wrote: > Hi folks, > > CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:08:16 -0700 (PDT) satimis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800 > Mobo - ASUS M2N-E with onboard NIC, nVidia chipsets > Vedio Card - ASUS EN7600 with nVidia chipsets > > > I have been searching around for a 64 bit OS to run as s

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:08 AM, satimis wrote: Hi folks, CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800 Mobo - ASUS M2N-E with onboard NIC, nVidia chipsets Vedio Card - ASUS EN7600 with nVidia chipsets I have been searching around for a 64 bit OS to run as server. The OS will be easy to install, rig

Re: Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread Albert Cardona
1) Buy a supported video card 2) Contact nvidia to let them know why you did so 3) profit! CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800 Mobo - ASUS M2N-E with onboard NIC, nVidia chipsets Vedio Card - ASUS EN7600 with nVidia chipsets I have been searching around for a 64 bit OS to run as server. T

Seeking opinion about OpenBSD

2007-03-18 Thread satimis
. I'm not feeling comfortable on running text browse such as Elinks, etc. Also on Internet browsing the websites complain requesting me to run GUI browser. Please advise will OpenBSD serve my need. TIA B.R. satimis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Seeking-opinio