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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