Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:25 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}
Message-ID: <20070510082225.GB54352@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <4642A7F9.8070707@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:57PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Eric Crist wrote: [ ... ] > > Eric, > That's one flavor of DVI; memory serves me correctly there were 2: > I-DVI and some other kind (I think the one you have pictured above is > I-DVI). > I gave my old box to Gary, it's an HDMI ATI 7000 series card, and > the card has an HDMI to Dual VGA plug along with it. I forgot that all the > items were still in the box (did that to ensure that everything was put > in the box and made it through shipping all right). > Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to > purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand > with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000 > series would be sufficient. > -Garrett tO Garrett, Okay, if I do need another or newer card, I should look for "nVidia"; what else? Like how much video memory is appropriate? 64, 128, 256 megs? AGP, i'M assuming. tia, and so long fer now, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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