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

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

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 but

RE: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
16, 2003 3:03 PM To: Rus Foster Cc: mell miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: software/hardware question 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

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
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 (Although I'm a bit outdated since i gave up on gatos and ATI-tuners/video inn/out chipsetts about a year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 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

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 regret