[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jan 6 15:15:59 CST 2003


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:44:36PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   I have what may be a dumb question about MacOS X.  Let's say I have a 
> beige G3 with onboard video.  Can I plug a PCI VGA card into a slot and 
> have it somehow override the onboard video hardware?

Err, you can if it is a PCI VGA board supported by Macs, I'm pretty
sure.  It's just like having a nubus video as primary instead of
onboard, except with PCI.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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