Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:21:47 -0700 From: "Dragon Knight" <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Cheap Displays? (Was: Support for AGP video cards??) Message-ID: <004601be25a0$184f5540$81e9fea9@death>
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>>Fellow FreeBSD lovers and Winblows haters, >> >> I have a AGP S3 4Meg Video Card, will FreeBSD support this? I was >> reading a description of FreeBSD somewhere, it mentioned support >> for all ports (ISA,EISA,PCI,etc) but didnt mention AGP anywhere. >> Will I encounter problems if using this card?? > >Look on http://www.xfree86.org/ for the answer tothis question. > >Advanced video card function for bitmapped diplays is the realm of X >windows. FreeBSD supports VGA compatible adapters for the purpose of text >based interface. > Speaking of a text-based interface is there anywhere out there a person could pick up a two-color display, black/green, black/orange, whatever that is quite sizeable. ~20 inches or greater? CRT would be great, a flat-panel display would be even better. Assuming they would be somewhat inexpensive (2 colors) a person could mount 1 or 2 at the foot of their bed :) Thanks, Samuel Greear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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