From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 17 13: 3: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF98714F0F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2195.bossig.com [208.26.242.195]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29156; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3790E17F.20D4F28E@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:03:11 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Davidson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video Cards... References: <000801bed084$55e53de0$e5b41004@davidson> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Joe Davidson wrote: > > As an upcoming Computer Science Student, I will be required to > purchase a computer that is capable of running both Win/NT and > FreeBSD. I notice there is a list of supported configurations that > includes Hard Drives, Network Cards, and Sound Cards, but it says > very little about Video Cards. Does FreeBSD support AGP and/or is > their any particular Video Card that is not currently supported by > FreeBSD? You have to remember the FreeBSD runs like a MS Command prompt except the supported commands are quite different. That means mode 3 video. All video cards support mode 3. It isn't until you start x-windows that your system has a gui frontend. That is an application and you have to go to their web page. You should start with http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/README.html and follow the link to supported video chips. A rule of thumb would probably be go with a version back on your video card. The bleeding edge technology will most likely be supported in 16-colors, at least for a while. The manufacturer's aren't developing the drivers and that means someone has to add the new parameters to a driver. It is sort of like running NT4 and Win9x where you have support at an early stage but someone is always finding something broken. Six months after a system is released everything works and you have the full package but now you are six months behind the bleeding edge. Kent > > Thank you, > > Joseph Davidson > > nugins99@netzero.com -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message