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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Roey Almog <roeya@iol.co.il>
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Subject: Re: Video Display Cards
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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