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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: Patrick Giagnocavo <pgiag@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: #9 Imagine Series 2 Date: 29 Sep 1996 18:55:17 -0700 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Lines: 27 Sender: patrick@Starship Message-ID: <55afu8rcl6.fsf@Starship.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> References: <324a8861.6241423@news.clover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust63.max10.denver.co.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan) writes: > > I was wondering, can anybody tell me if xfree86 work with #9 imagine > Series 2 video card under fbsd?? if its doesn't will the commerical > x11r6 work and how much?? > > > Two Question I am not sure about the XF86 version, though I have heard reports that at the least you can drive the on board Cirrus Logic chip. The company I work for, X Inside Inc., does have support for the I128-2 as of version 2.1 . There are a few bugs currently with some revisions of the boards - best to download the 10-minute demo (http://www.xinside.com/). See if it works well on your system. ObFreeBSD: we use FreeBSD extensively in-house at XII, even though we have access to virtually every kind of PC un*x. I personally have just switched from Linux to FBSD because XEmacs kept dumping core under Linux - but didn't under FBSD :-) Cordially --Patrick pgiag@earthlink.net