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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:57:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-VESA video card
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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.
>
>