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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: CD-ROM support/video support Message-ID: <1994Aug17.191922.25334@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <32ovnmINNb3d@duncan.cs.utk.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 19:19:22 GMT Lines: 38 Paul J. Wickman (wickman@cs.utk.edu) wrote: : I'm looking into getting a CD-ROM drive. One of the drives I've : been told about is a Mitsumi (sp?) drive with a proprietary Mitsumi : interface. Has anyone heard of this and will FreeBSD support it? FreeBSD supports the Mitsumi drives with the mcd device driver. I don't have one but every post I've seen by people that do seems to be positive. I've seen these drives selling for as little as $129.00 Don't know about the Diamond but Tridents are supported (though they are very slow performing). If you are looking to save $$$ get an TSENG ET4000/ET4000W32 card. They are not much more than a Trident and perform a lot better. If you want better performance under XFree86 but still want to save money get an older model S3 based card like the Orchid Fahrenheit VA for around $135-$145.00 Steve : : Also, I'm looking at a Diamond Star Video Local Bus video adapter : (SVGA), is this supported? If not, is a standard Trident SVGA adapter : supported? : Much thanks. : -- : Paul J. Wickman - Graduate Student - University of Tennessee, Knoxville : Email: wickman@cs.utk.edu : #include <disclaimer.h> -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------