Re: Forgot to add...

2004-06-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:40:48PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 3BSD wrote:
> >One thing I forgot to add to be previous e-mail about hardware
> >compatibility was that I'm using the DVI port of my graphics card,
> >connected to an LCD display, will that pose any problems?
> 
> Generally not.  To the extent that your configuration of video card and 
> monitor can be treated as a generic (s)VGA display, FreeBSD will be 
> plug-and-play for text mode (booting, console), and will also work 
> genericly under X11.
> 
> Getting 3D hardware support going for fast OpenGL stuff, and/or doing a 
> multimonitor display mode are more complicated questions, but generally one 
> can get such things working after more tweaking and time spent on your part.

In the previous message, he mentioned using an nVidia geForce4. I've had
good experiences with a geForce2 in my FreeBSD 5-RELEASE box. nVidia has a
driver you can download from their website for FreeBSD, and I haven't had
any problems with it.

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-- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


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Re: Forgot to add...

2004-06-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
3BSD wrote:
One thing I forgot to add to be previous e-mail about hardware
compatibility was that I'm using the DVI port of my graphics card,
connected to an LCD display, will that pose any problems?
Generally not.  To the extent that your configuration of video card and 
monitor can be treated as a generic (s)VGA display, FreeBSD will be 
plug-and-play for text mode (booting, console), and will also work genericly 
under X11.

Getting 3D hardware support going for fast OpenGL stuff, and/or doing a 
multimonitor display mode are more complicated questions, but generally one 
can get such things working after more tweaking and time spent on your part.

--
-Chuck
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