Re: Video Card Support

From: Ray Strode (halfline@hawaii.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 19:59:00 EST


>
>
>A Matrox-card is generally a safe guess, as would be a Permedia2 card,
>like the Diamond FireGL 1000, IIRC.
>
Hmm. I could probably pick up a g200 for next to nothing.

>Problem is that the BIOS of those video-cards is X86, and to initialize
>the card, this BIOS needs to be called. Some cards are recognized, and
>you PC164 bios knows how to initialize them. If the card is not
>recognized, it can't be initialized.
>
Hmmm. That's interesting.. Right now i'm using SRM. Would switching to
AlphaBIOS possibly allow more video cards through?

Thanks.
Ray Strode

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