Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:27:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: graphics cards Message-ID: <199610261927.VAA00205@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <828.199610261855@zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from "Mr M P Searle" at Oct 26, 96 07:55:08 pm
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In reply to Mr M P Searle who wrote:
>
> I know that SVGA cards are mapped in a different place from earlier graphics
> cards, but of the others(VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA), which can be installed at once
> (I think any can be installed at the same time as a SVGA card)?
Well, not exactly...
You can have one monochrome card and one color card simultaniously, ie
one MDA/Hercules card and one of CGA/EGA/(S)VGA.
Now, with modern machines with PCI bus, you _should_ be able to have
more than one (S)VGA card simultaniously, but I now of many boards
where this is not true (yet).
However I run my main dev box with one Hercules, one old ISA SVGA, and
a diamond Viper Pro Video PCI, and it works (with special drivers
that is).
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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