From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-VESA video card
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:21:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7477907E-2C0D-4E41-80A8-7A688B19A91F@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC85D81.60603@orthanc.ca>
On 27 Oct 2010, at 6:12 pm, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a current-production PCI (not -express) video
> card
> that will run in native (NOT VESA) mode? I'm not too fussy about
> VGA vs.
> DVI, but it would be nice if the driver supported both.
Are there any in production at all? I tried to get one back in the
AGP era and found it almost impossible; I eventually got a 1MB card
second-hand which the shop staff had almost forgotten they had. I
heard the situation improved a little bit after that (but still in
the AGP era) because people wanted second cards, but PCI cards were
significantly more expensive than AGP.
With PCI-e allowing for at least 2 regular graphics cards in most
machines and PCI-e 1x graphics cards filling the niche PCI cards
filled in AGP machines, I'd be surprised if anyone's making PCI cards
at all. I'm really curious what machine this is for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 17:12 Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-10-31 6:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-10-31 8:57 ` pmarin
2010-10-31 20:35 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-11-01 0:13 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-01 0:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-11-01 0:48 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-01 7:23 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-01 8:03 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-02 1:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
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