From: pmarin <pmarin.mail@gmail.com>
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 09:57:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknfw45afxBD7+x-e4y6vPPjZMNTK0WAfqgKeNq@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7477907E-2C0D-4E41-80A8-7A688B19A91F@fastmail.fm>
The some of the raedon X1xxx series still use the PCI slot. Plan9
drivers is another story.
http://www.visiontek.com/1000-series-cards/radeon-x1300/radeon-x1300-256mb-pci.html
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> 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 8:57 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
2010-10-31 8:57 ` pmarin [this message]
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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