[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jan 6 15:16:34 CST 2003


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:15:59PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 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.

Oh wait, you said Mac OS X.  Err, I would think so, but not sure.  Only
seen it done under classic.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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