Subject: Re: general questions
To: Kyle Farrell <orb@ee.washington.edu>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 07/24/1996 09:50:42
Hi Kyle,

> Hi-
> I just subscribed to port-atari & am planning on installing NetBSD on my 
> TT once i get another disk.  I've got a few questions that I didn't see 
> answered in the archives:
> 
> --  My current machine is a TT030 with 4 mb ST ram and 4 mb TT ram.  
> Will i see a significant improvement if I up it to 16 mb TT ram?
Very probably: yes. Especially X needs a lot of memory.
> 
> --  There was mention in the archive that CaTTamaran doesn't work 
> with NetBSD.  Has this been fixed?
I'm not sure, but I guess it will work. If I remember well, there were some
MMU-faults reported but there never has been a further report on this.
> 
> --  My only monitor is a 19" TTM195.  Will this have any problems with X
> Windows? 
No, there were some fixes to the Xserver a few months ago for the 19" because
it showed reverse video. The current Xserver should work ok.
> 
> --  Are their device drivers for the midi ports?
No, but you're welcome to supply them ;-)


Leo.