On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Joe Gidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher Intemann wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about installing OpenBSD on my desktop workstation. > > As far as I know, there are commercial (binary) drivers for some Nvidia > > and > > ATI cards applicable. > > Do these drivers work on OpenBSD as well? > > There is no support for binary blob drivers, and I'd be absolutely shocked > if it was even considered at any point. OpenBSD doesn't work that way. > > > If not, which graphics cards are supported for 3D acceleration at all? > > Intel and some ATI cards have working DRI/DRM. See > http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081029164221 > Thanks for the hint. This looks very promising to me, even though I'm not very sure how to use the driver on OpenBSD yet. Is there any good straight forward-howto I could learn from? One more thing: I could get my hands on a cheap Sun Blade sparc workstation. Since the drivers mentioned above are OpenSource, would it be possible to plug a supported ATI graphics-card in the PCI-slot of the sparc box and compile the driver in order to use it? Which graphics card would be recommended (most current cards seem to be AGP-cards - are there any newer PCI-cards with current chipsets applicable at all?) > > > Then, I would like to connect my USB printer/scanner (Epson SX100). > > From what I've learned from google, this device should work with Linux - > > but > > does it work with OpenBSD? > > I can't speak to that particular printer model, but odds are very good > that it will work with either lpd or CUPS when the appropriate > configuration is done. Some links on printing in OpenBSD: > > http://www.stilyagin.com/darrin/blog/2007/05/16/2200/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/darrin/blog/2006/08/27/1218/ > http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/using-foo2zjs-with-openbsd-lpd/ > > Thanks. I'll check that as well. Regards, Chris
