[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[vance at neurotica.com]

If you want to do Quartz Extreme, get yourself a used GeForce2MX.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 03:58 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke 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?
> >
> > If the VGA card groks OFW, and the onboard port doesn't have a monitor
> > attached, the Mac should select the port on the card automagically.  At
> > least, that's been my experience.  If it doesn't, you can probably
> > smack it around in OpenBoot.
>
>    That sounds good.  Can someone recommend an affordable PCI video card
> for MacOS X, no OpenGL or any other crap, but decent resolution and bit
> depth?  Quartz Extreme would be a nice bonus.
>
>           -Dave
>
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