Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Roey Almog <roeya@iol.co.il> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Video Display Cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960717230619.393G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31E7DB95.54EE@iol.co.il>
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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Roey Almog wrote: > 1. I didn't found nothing about support for video display cards such as > ATI Graphics Expression (thats the one I have). from what I have read > it seems that only VGA resolution can be used (i.e. 640*480) and that > no hardware ecceleration functions of the card will be used. > Does my impression is right ? The Graphics Expression is a Mach64-based card. An accelerated Mach64 server is available for XFree86. If you have a newer card (with the 'CT' chipset) then you'll have to use the beta server which you can get from ftp.xfree86.org. I'm using it on a Graphics Pro Turbo with no problems. > 2. Another importent aspect to software devlopers is a daul monitor > support currently I use MDA monitor to run a debugger and to send > debug massages to, and the S_VGA monitor is free for the tested > application. Is these will be possible on the FreeBSD o/s ? I don't know if FreeBSD itself supports multiheaded displays. XFree might. I can't say I've tried it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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