Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:48:24 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forgot to add... Message-ID: <20040630174824.GB54215@quark.cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <40DF06A0.10801@mac.com> References: <f864608004062615285942d832@mail.gmail.com> <40DF06A0.10801@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:40:48PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 3BSD wrote: > >One thing I forgot to add to be previous e-mail about hardware > >compatibility was that I'm using the DVI port of my graphics card, > >connected to an LCD display, will that pose any problems? > > Generally not. To the extent that your configuration of video card and > monitor can be treated as a generic (s)VGA display, FreeBSD will be > plug-and-play for text mode (booting, console), and will also work > genericly under X11. > > Getting 3D hardware support going for fast OpenGL stuff, and/or doing a > multimonitor display mode are more complicated questions, but generally one > can get such things working after more tweaking and time spent on your part. In the previous message, he mentioned using an nVidia geForce4. I've had good experiences with a geForce2 in my FreeBSD 5-RELEASE box. nVidia has a driver you can download from their website for FreeBSD, and I haven't had any problems with it. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4vzosc4yyULgN4YRApoBAKCRL5MNJPMD9jRkbQbRdJ6bdk3dhACgr4iR VMQlAAz8hdh+3mDFi086O+U= =BT0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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