Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:04:47 -0400 (AST) From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> To: Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com> Cc: Dustin Pika <dustpika@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD AGP compatible??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310220319.17023B-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310192545.240A-100000@mental>
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> AGP (I believe) is an extension of the PCI bus. I am running a PII > w/an AGP *video card*, but the rest of the system is PCI and ISA. It runs > really nicely, I have a really nice X server running, and I have not had > any problems with the PCI SCSI card (Aaptec 2940UW) that is also on the > PCI bus. AGP is a special dedicated bus. It is for graphics. It lets a graphics card do some pretty nifty stuff, like use system ram to perform 3D acceleration. -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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