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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???
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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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