[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, 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?

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.

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