On Thursday 03 January 2008 04:44, Fred Larson wrote: [snip...] > > > Hal, That's some good info. Thanks a lot! I'll start > > > budget negotiations. > > > > You'll need to open your case to find what slots you have > > available. For new vid cards you'll need a free PCI-E slot. As > > this is a P4 system it may only have an AGP slot, and as it's a > > Dell with integrated graphics it may not even have that. > > > > You'd better check before you order a new vid card. > > > > LeeE > > Good call. I'm not a hardware expert, but it appears there's one > AGP slot and two PCI (no E) slots. > > So what options might I have?
I just did a quick search and and saw nvidia agp cards in the 5/6/7xxx series. I don't know if this means nvidia 8xxx series cards are PCI-E only, but if you dig around the nvidia web-site you should be able to find out. ATI cards, as mentioned by others, still have problems with OpenGL support in Linux although it looks like this will improve this year. It's a shame really because other than that, the ATI hardware is pretty good. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
