which video card for FreeBSD/amd64

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Apr 26 11:03:44 PDT 2005


David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 01:12:53PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 
>>>On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:48:35PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>Is there a decent AGP or PCI-X
>>>>>
>>>>>I assume you mean PCI-E here, not PCI-X.
>>>>
>>>>I mean PCI-X. My IWill DK8X has no PCI-E slots.
>>
>>>I use an AGP Matrox G450 in my DK8X.
>>>Also any Radeon R200 card should give you X.org native dual-head support
>>>on AMD64: Radeon 8500, FireGL 8800, etc...
>>
>>But none of these are dual-DVI, are they? Thanks,
> 
> 
> Nope.  But this is the best you can do AFAIK.  Every DVI-cablable monitor
> I've seen can also handle analog VGA15.
> 

Once you use a DVI monitor with a DVI video card, the blurriness of 
VGA15 becomes painfully apparent.

Scott


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