On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer > > either. > > Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nVidia chip, > AGP8 and DVI out at my local computer shop: ASUS V9400-X/TD / NVIDIA > (GeForce4) MX 4000 / 64Mb (but I only use 1280x1024). 39 Euros > now. Works for me :-)
You don't need a very fast card to watch movies. My Thinkpad T23 runs Xine very well with a Savage IX. I'd like to try X-Plane on Linux though - so I'm going to give a 6600GT a try. Did not have good experiences with ATI however. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
