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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 07:54 am, Rod Person wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 6:23 pm, Roland Smith wrote:
> > AFAICT, the only video driver in the kernel is the 'bktr' driver,
> > which supports cards based on the bt848/bt848a/bt849a/bt878/bt879
> > chipset. See paragraph 7.5 of the Handbook.
>
> Yes, I've read that. I have found a Linux site that has an entire
> list of cards supported by the Linux Brooktree driver and was not
> sure if that would apply to FreeBSD, not sure if the FreeBSD driver
> is based on the linux work.

The FreeBSD bktr man page should be of help:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bktr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE

I have an AverMedia PCI card that works great.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould