[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:01:09PM -0500, 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.

Geforce2MX?

Should be so cheap that considering a cheaper/slower card wouldn't make
sense, but it all depends on what you can find right that moment.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd