From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 08:21:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42CD16A4D0 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-85.apple.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C254A43FE3 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hA3GLQKk015632; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)hA3GLPpa022820; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:21:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <443cd8rqe3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20031031063216.7884.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> <443cd8rqe3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:21:38 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: knomadness Subject: Re: M/B Bios Settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:21:28 -0000 On Nov 1, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > knomadness writes: >> When setting up the video card configuration in >> X-windows, how do you indicate or direct it to use the >> AGP slot not a PCI slot? > > Usually, by inserting a video card into an AGP slot instead of a PCI > slot. If you have both installed, then the answer kind of depends on > why you did that; the PC architecture doesn't deal well with such a > configuration. PC hardware deals fine with a video card in both the AGP slot and one or more PCI slots-- at least for the purposes of having several displays running at relatively high resolutions (eg, 1280x1024x32) doing normal desktop activities. 3D hardware acceleration isn't going to run very quickly on several PCI devices at once, true, or even one, if that was the concern, but 2D works fine. This was on relatively generic hardware-- a buncha Dell machines between the 440 LX and BX chipsets [P2-300 through P3-700's], using mainly nVidia TNT2/early GeForce or ATI Radeon AGP cards and PCI-based Matrox Millenium's. The admin who was setting these up ended up having around forteen monitors going between four machines. -- -Chuck