From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 08:19:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E9316A402 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:19:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EE213C45A for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:19:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4A8MQuu054547; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l4A8MPHs054546; Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 01:22:25 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070510082225.GB54352@thought.org> References: <20070509220908.GA50232@thought.org> <20070509230946.GA50585@thought.org> <20070510013453.GA52298@thought.org> <5CA2CC6B-72B6-46A1-9712-E258CFB4EB11@gmail.com> <4642A7F9.8070707@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4642A7F9.8070707@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Eric Crist , Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever} X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:19:39 -0000 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