Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 01:12:17 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>
Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}
Message-ID: <20070510081217.GA54352@thought.org>
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:21:57PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
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> >On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> >>
> >>Gary,
> >>
> >>Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard
> >>VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an
> >>additional one could be purchased at most computer retailers or your
> >>local Radio Shack.
> >>
> >>HTH
> >
> >
> > It does help, thanks, Eric. I may have missed the cord adaptor
> > that was stuck in the box. Need help to open/check. Meanwhile,
> > I need to look at the specs for this Dell 8200 to see what kind
> > of card is in there. What's there is a jack with two rows of
> > sockets. I'm guessing this is the standard Dell "DVI" connector,
> > yes, no, other? :-)
> >
> > Also, in your opinion, since I'm not a gamer and just want to
> > display at extreme most 1600x1200, do I need anything seriously
> > upscale? I've seen and skipped past lots of questions about lots
> > of drivers. So let's say that I went totally ape and bought some
> > AGP card with 256M of memory:: do we have a driveer for those
> > kinds of very high end cards?
> >
> > thanks again,
> >
> > gary
> >
> > PS: Does anybody know of a website that 'splains VGA, SVGA,
> > EVGA, and all the rest? I've been seriously guilty of being
> > lazy; I'm fessing up! ....
>
>
> Gary,
>
> A DVI connector has 3 rows of 8 pins and a set of 4 hole is a box
> shape next to it:
>
> +------------------------+
> | o o o o o o o o o|o |
> | o o o o o o o o --+-- |
> \ o o o o o o o o o|o /
> +--------------------+
>
> There's also a mini-DVI format that's kinda like this:
>
> +-----------------+
> | o o o o o o o o||
> | o o o o o o o o||
> `---------------'
>
> I'm sure you know what a VGA connector looks like, so I won't draw
> that for you. ;)
>
what's on the Dell must be the mini-DVI jack then. I can't make
out the upper connector on the bac; besides, none of then have
3 rows... .
(As for {}VGA, I'll upgrade myself via wiki :-) I'm severely
overdue.)
> At work, we're using the GeForce 7600 GS AGP cards, which have 256MB
> of RAM and dual DVI output. We're using the FreeBSD Binary driver
> (available in ports) and running dual monitors with full Open GL
> support pretty seamlessly.
So: if I do go ape and buy the 7600 and drop in the binary
version in ports, everything should work. Yes? "should" because
shtuff happens too often......... ..... [bar]
> I'd recommend that setup to anyone. It's
> a feature called Twinview which allows your desktop to span multiple
> monitors, and most programs that support xinerama(sp?) are 'aware' of
> the physical border between monitors, so you don't end up with
> windows popping up spanning both monitors. (i.e. maximize doesn't
> cross both monitors, just one).
>
> HTH
Me too:) This GeForce sounds great; but besides having
SuperMonitor capabilities, what does it really buy? For
instance, will my windows redraw faster? Will xterms open
quicker? Most of what I do nowadaya is write using vi or OO
along with some C hacking. I gave up on viedo game years ago--
what? 2 or 3 years now:).... No, seriously, besides being for the
cutting-edge crowd or for games, or 75 billion colors, what do
these cards do?
gary
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