Re: G400 in X makes it wobble

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From: Ben Smithurst
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00

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Tom Bird wrote:

> I downloaded the FreeBSD CD image and it looks "promising".  The X
> support was second to none with all the latest servers and window
> managers (and associated libraries) but the rest of it isn't quite up to
> scratch yet.

What doesn't look up to scratch about it? Which CD image did you
download by the way?

> The kernel doesn't (officially) do SMP

First I've heard of it (but then I have no SMP machines, so I haven't
investigated it much). I think the SMP support in -current has just been
improved, and may well be merged to -stable in time for 4.1.

> and it didn't want to know about my cheapy 100Mbps Realtek network
> card.

That would surprise me. How does Linux identify your card? If it's an
RTL8139 try the "rl" driver. FreeBSD is certainly happy enough with my
cheapy 10/100 Realtek 8139 card. (I only use it at 10Mbps though, and
all the other machines use Realtek 8029, aka NE2000 compatible.)

> I eagerly await version 4.00.

I thought it was already released, though I got a bit lost with all the
delays.

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