From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 6 14:36:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13837 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13831 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp114.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.114]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28606; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:35:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:34:34 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Steve Friedrich cc: FreeBSD User Questions List , "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Compaq 590XL and X In-Reply-To: <199811062116.QAA30151@laker.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It's probably vague so they can "slipstream" a different video board > anytime they can get a better deal. If you have DOS, you can go into > debug and go to the video BIOS address space and it will have a > manufacturer's ID string telling what kind of video it is. If you have > Winblows, you can use MSD. > > Someone else may have other alternatives... HTH Mine would be to pop the case off and read the chips. It'll say pretty clearly what brand and chipset it is. *grin* But that's just me.... Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message