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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ISA VGA or Monochrome or Hercules adapters? Date: 8 Oct 1996 23:34:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <53eod8$lrs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <chad-0810960016390001@sverige.pengar.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh) wrote: > I am going to set up a server running FreeBSD for email. I have no need > for fancy graphics or anything and would like to install an el-cheapo ISA > card for monitor interface. > Are these supported? Yes. My scratchbox uses a cheap MGA, too. > Is there any performance disadvantage (beyond screen performance) on using > such a card? No. Even the screen performance is not worse than for other ISA video cards. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)