: > > What video cards can I use? (will a Trident isa + 256k dram work?)
: >
: > You need a special video card for the Magnum. Regular ISA or EISA cards
: > WILL NOT WORK. The video card is a 2meg VRAM frame-buffer video card
: > based on the INMOS g364 chipset and has a fixed frequency output of
: > 1280x1024x256 at 60 herz. Most newer multisync monitors can handle that.
: >
: > Unfortunately, however, the video card is extremely expensive (quoted
: > price is $315) and is availible from only one place--Carrera Computers.
I have a line on one of these machine, sans video card. Can I take a
standard PC video card and slap it in there and have it work?
By work, I mean the following: will the BIOS ignore the thing until
it is booted (via a serial console, say), when the OS can then take
over and dittle the video card in a standard way. A $35 ISA card is a
whole lot cheaper than the $315 Carrara one, no?
Or am I dreaming?
Warner
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