WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

[Eric Crist]

On May 9, 2007, at 6:09 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>> 	I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
>> 	I'm looking for a video-card.   The more recent mobo's (like the
>> 	i815) have them builtin.  My 750MHz machine uses the SRAM for
>> 	its v-RAM.  My old Kayaks came with Matrox Millennium 8MB video
>> 	card that give me Plenty of resolution under xorg.  I just did a
>> 	web search and find an "AGP" card for seriously cheap with 256MB
>> 	of memory.  It's an "eVGA e-GeForce FX5500"   Whatever!
>>
>> 	I'm no gamer (but just-might-wanna play some auto racing games).
>> 	All I care about is a) that the card fits by KVM plug with a
>> 	three-row pinout, and of course, b), that FBSD has a driver for
>> 	this card.   ....All of my computers have this 3-row male pin,
>> 	so need a 3-row female jack/socket.
>>
>
> 	Ok, I found the type of connnector or jack or socket I need.
> 	It is an HD15 "15 pin high denisity D-SUB female connector" with
> 	sockets 1 to 5 on the first row, 6 thru 10, 2nd, 11 to 15 on the
> 	bottom.  This on http://pinouts.ru.  VGA.
>
> 	I'll google aroubd further, but still would be much obliged for
> 	input from anybody ... .
>
> 	gary
>

Gary,

Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard  
VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an  
additional one could be purchased at most computer retailers or your  
local Radio Shack.

HTH

Eric Crist