Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:04:01 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: "'dustpika@hotmail.com'" <dustpika@hotmail.com>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD AGP compatible??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312160308.466C-100000@mental> In-Reply-To: <3507B5C0.9D0DA580@we.lc.ehu.es>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > Dustin Pika wrote: > > > > I recently bought a new Pentium II based, Win95 PC. > > Since Pentium II's feature AGP instead of PCI, will this > > prevent me from being able to run FreeBSD on my PC??? > > AGP means "Advanced Graphics Port" (I think). It's supposed that > AGP graphics adapters would benefit of a faster I/O than the PCI ones. > > FreeBSD itself runs in "text mode", compatible with both PCI and > AGP cards. However, the X Window System (the XFree86 package > bundled with FreeBSD) may have problems with AGP adapters. > Note that XFree86 is _not_ part of FreeBSD; and it's also included > in most Linux distributions, so that you have the same problem > with AGP and Linux. > > Last week XFree86 3.3.2 was released. Now, some X servers support > AGP cards. The Matrox Millenium II AGP, for example, is supported > by XFree86 3.3.2. The last release of FreeBSD (2.2.5) comes > with XFree86 3.3.1, but you can upgrade it easily to 3.3.2. > And "real soon" will be released FreeBSD 2.2.6; I think that > it will include XFree86 3.3.2. > > You can find information about AGP graphics adapters supported > by XFree86 3.3.2 in http://www.xfree86.org. > > -- JM > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es > Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose > Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | > Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 > 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I am running a Matrox Millenium II AGP card and the XSuSE_Matrox for FBSD server. I can do 32bpp at 1024x768 with it.... Hasn't crashed once, I love it. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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