>Hi, >I'm thinking about installing OpenBSD on my desktop workstation. >As far as I know, there are commercial (binary) drivers for some Nvidia and >ATI cards applicable. >Do these drivers work on OpenBSD as well? >If not, which graphics cards are supported for 3D acceleration at all? >Then, I would like to connect my USB printer/scanner (Epson SX100). >From what I've learned from google, this device should work with Linux - but >does it work with OpenBSD? >Thx, >Chris
Hi Chris, I just want to address the issue of the Epson SX100 since I belive you got very good answers regarding 3D acceleration. Scanners which are supported by sane-backends work rock stable on OpenBSD. The only exception I personally have encountered (I have probably tried two dozen scanners on OpenBSD) are HP SCSI scanners which you can probably find only in a museum anyway. The sane-backends for those use some cheap Linux hacks. The real issue here, I is that you want to use all-in-one device. I have successfully used 2 different HP all-in-one devices (HPLIP) and I failed to utilize one of Epsons all-in-one devices which was supposed to work. I personally would discourage you from using all-in-one devices unless you care only for printing. Setting those up is a bit tricky. USB printer are seeing as ulpt devices by OpenBSD kernel. On another hand USB scanners are seeing as uscanner devices (about dozen or so) or as ugen devices in which case uscanner must be disabled in kernel. In order to be able to use all in one you will probably have to disable ulpt driver in kernel (most likely also umass driver as well) so that ugen driver gets attached to all-in-one. Removing umass driver is not a good thing to do. The all-in-one device you have use very expensive ink anyway. Get yourself a cheap monochromatic printer which speaks Post Script language or the more expensive color one if you must use color. The price of the printer will be completely offset by the price per copy. I would also recommend getting older flat bad scanner made by Epson (Make sure they are supported by sane-backends excluding Epkowa close source Linux only backend). You may contact me off the list for the help with scanner set up unless you read Serbian in which case you can follow http://www.bsd-srbija.org/dokumentacija/doku.php/skeniranje_sane Speaking of printer configuration look at this thread in English and my (Oko) posts. http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3088 Best, Predrag P.S. If you decide you want to try your luck with Epson SX100 send me a PP and I will get you started.
