[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Dave McGuire]

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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