Charlie wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 April 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: > <snip> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Charlie wrote: > > > damn! now _THAT_ is some RAM stuffed in that box. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Yeah, I had one of those weird impulses back when memory was cheap. > > After the night I've had (and a large part of the day yesterday as well) I > think the next thing that performs aggravated assault on my pocket will be a > graphics card. I can't get the old clunker to admit anything but 'make and > model' (Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT 16 MB) to 'Drake. XF86Config-4 > keeps claiming it only has 4 MB of memory. Resembles something a dog would > turn it's hindquarters on. > > It started when I installed the NVidia drivers. The next time I dropped to > the console to fiddle it locked up on loading GLX; and then kdeinit was > suicidal no matter what I tried to edit. Thank all of the people that nagged > me about back-ups until it became a habit. After almost 6 hours of chasing > gremlins, I just reinstalled (twice 'cause I had to reformat everything to > get back to the GUI) from one of the "archive disks" (2 60 GB Maxtors) and > merged everything. > -- > Charlie in Edmonton, AB, Canada > Mandrake 8.2 > user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > 6:49am up 2:23, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 >
hey Luv. If that cards a PCI one... I can give you another in trade? An AGP ATI one :) Its a 16 MB card but you're welcome to it in trade. I really need a PCI card for dual monitors. And the one i have *an S3 savage* won't work. :( Thx! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert
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