Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:36:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc@netcologne.de> To: dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: aa8vb@ipass.net, van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend Message-ID: <199908022236.AAA04564@oranje.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908020940520.385-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> (message from Doug Rabson on Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:42:53 %2B0100 (BST)) References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908020940520.385-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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> Someone told me that future nvidia boards will be AGP only though > which really sucks since none of my alphas have AGP and I don't think > alphas will ever have AGP. I first thought AGP was just a PCI bus run at 2x33 MHz or even 4x33 MHz. But there must be more to it, if you say that alpha boards don't feature AGP. Embrace & extend tactics from Intel? Just out of curiosity: I understand that the PCI bus specs are CPU independent, but what is with the BIOS on a PCI card, isn't that written in x86 code? Does a non x86 system like alpha simply ignore the BIOS? > It also makes it impossible to use them in a multihead configuration > since I think AGP is limited to exactly one slot. Intersting. Which brings me to another question - I pulled the old RIVA 128 card, I wonder if I could have let it stay in the system together with the TNT. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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