From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 11 23:24:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27536 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iway1.iw.net (iway1.iw.net [204.157.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27530 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from death (rap-dialup-34.dtgnet.com [216.16.6.34] (may be forged)) by iway1.iw.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01100 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:24:29 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <004601be25a0$184f5540$81e9fea9@death> From: "Dragon Knight" To: Subject: Cheap Displays? (Was: Support for AGP video cards??) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:21:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>Fellow FreeBSD lovers and Winblows haters, >> >> I have a AGP S3 4Meg Video Card, will FreeBSD support this? I was >> reading a description of FreeBSD somewhere, it mentioned support >> for all ports (ISA,EISA,PCI,etc) but didnt mention AGP anywhere. >> Will I encounter problems if using this card?? > >Look on http://www.xfree86.org/ for the answer tothis question. > >Advanced video card function for bitmapped diplays is the realm of X >windows. FreeBSD supports VGA compatible adapters for the purpose of text >based interface. > Speaking of a text-based interface is there anywhere out there a person could pick up a two-color display, black/green, black/orange, whatever that is quite sizeable. ~20 inches or greater? CRT would be great, a flat-panel display would be even better. Assuming they would be somewhat inexpensive (2 colors) a person could mount 1 or 2 at the foot of their bed :) Thanks, Samuel Greear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message