On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> Others have recommended using such a live image when purchasing hardware
> like a laptop at a store.
That is exactly what I do. I take a USB stick with a copy of NetBSD
installed on it into the store and boot it up. Then I simply run startx and
watch t
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:23:38PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> What might also be nice would be USB image which could try to fire up
> X11 and some relevant app or apps to allow people to perform a quick
> "smoke test" to quickly get *some* data points...
There is ./build.sh live-image. I think
On 5 April 2016 at 18:02, Swift Griggs wrote:
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> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> > It would be more fruitful to provide a page where people list hardware
> > that works for them, http://dmesgd.nycbug.org is close.
>
> That's very cool. The idea, in general, reminds me of the supported
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> It would be more fruitful to provide a page where people list hardware
> that works for them, http://dmesgd.nycbug.org is close.
That's very cool. The idea, in general, reminds me of the supported
hardware database for BeOS back in the day. I got a lot
On 04/03/16 11:04, co...@sdf.org wrote:
There is often no pattern to which devices work, as the drivers have
unresolved bugs that randomly surface on some devices.
The DRM KMS drivers used are the Linux 3.15 ones.
I can say that for nvidia, everything up to 700 series "should" work,
and some of
There is often no pattern to which devices work, as the drivers have
unresolved bugs that randomly surface on some devices.
The DRM KMS drivers used are the Linux 3.15 ones.
I can say that for nvidia, everything up to 700 series "should" work,
and some of 700 series. In reality, most of these dev
I have a couple of FreeBSD boxen, & I can check
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for how graphics cards are supported
there. Is there a similar page for NetBSD ? I have done a bit of
googling & came up empty. TIA & have a good one.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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