Forgot to add...

[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 (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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