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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


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