From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 26 12:28:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28437 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (disn49.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28392 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.2/8.7.3) id VAA00205; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:27:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610261927.VAA00205@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: graphics cards To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:27:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Soren Schmidt" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <828.199610261855@zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from "Mr M P Searle" at Oct 26, 96 07:55:08 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Mr M P Searle who wrote: > > I know that SVGA cards are mapped in a different place from earlier graphics > cards, but of the others(VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA), which can be installed at once > (I think any can be installed at the same time as a SVGA card)? Well, not exactly... You can have one monochrome card and one color card simultaniously, ie one MDA/Hercules card and one of CGA/EGA/(S)VGA. Now, with modern machines with PCI bus, you _should_ be able to have more than one (S)VGA card simultaniously, but I now of many boards where this is not true (yet). However I run my main dev box with one Hercules, one old ISA SVGA, and a diamond Viper Pro Video PCI, and it works (with special drivers that is). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..