From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 2 15:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA5C15025 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial1-49.netcologne.de [194.8.196.49]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA26070; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:38:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA04564; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:36:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@oranje.my.domain) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:36:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199908022236.AAA04564@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to marc@oranje.my.domain using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: aa8vb@ipass.net, van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Doug Rabson on Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:42:53 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Someone told me that future nvidia boards will be AGP only though > which really sucks since none of my alphas have AGP and I don't think > alphas will ever have AGP. I first thought AGP was just a PCI bus run at 2x33 MHz or even 4x33 MHz. But there must be more to it, if you say that alpha boards don't feature AGP. Embrace & extend tactics from Intel? Just out of curiosity: I understand that the PCI bus specs are CPU independent, but what is with the BIOS on a PCI card, isn't that written in x86 code? Does a non x86 system like alpha simply ignore the BIOS? > It also makes it impossible to use them in a multihead configuration > since I think AGP is limited to exactly one slot. Intersting. Which brings me to another question - I pulled the old RIVA 128 card, I wonder if I could have let it stay in the system together with the TNT. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message