Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
I'd just like to know what video card works best out of the box with debian. This is because I have just got woody, and aparently I, as a newbie, have to figure out how to install compile a special driver so woody can talk to the on-board four mb of memory on my Intel 82815 video card. I sure

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:28:54AM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: I'd just like to know what video card works best out of the box with debian. Do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Look at the choices for video drivers which are there. Google for video cards which work with those drivers.

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:28:54AM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: This is because I have just got woody, and aparently I, as a newbie, have to figure out how to install compile a special driver so woody can talk to the on-board four mb of memory on my Intel 82815 video card. I sure would

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-02 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 01 October 2004 07:28 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Greetings list, I would like to hear what models and brands of nVidia cards the list members use and what their experiences with those have been. My card is a Radeon 9000 Pro 128 MB that cost US$ 85 in July '03. I am looking for

[OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greetings list, I will make this short. Basically, I am fed up with my Radeon video card. Driver support from ATi sucks, I can hardly play America's Army or Neverwinter Nights. When I can play them, I am stuck with very low quality compatibility textures. I have tried several dri-trunk packages

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
#secure method=pgp mode=sign -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Mistake du jour! You'll only spend more on the nVidia for even crappier drivers. Just get a newer Radeon if you want graphics

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Mistake du jour! You'll only spend more on the nVidia for even crappier drivers. Just get a newer Radeon if you want graphics performance. I believe

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On October 1, 2004 20:29, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: #secure method=pgp mode=sign Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Mistake du jour! You'll only spend more on the nVidia for even crappier drivers. Just get a

Re: [OT] Video card recommendations.

2004-10-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:28:05PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Greetings list, ... What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Partly because I am sick of ATi, and partly because my nForce2 motherboard will hopefully be a bit more compatible with the nVidia card than it has been with

OT: Dual Monitor Video Card Recommendations...

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Kahle
I am replacing my Debian workstation with a new machine. On my old workstation I have been using a Matrox G400 video card that I have been fairly happy with. One strange problem however. When booting into GDM and then login into Gnome, the right hand monitor displays the desktop with wavy

Video card recommendations...

1998-03-25 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all, Currently i'm building a machine and am down to the last piece of hardware, the video card. i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the pro's/con's of the following cards: ATI all-in-wonder Diamond Viper Matrox Millenium II just a few words about any problems

Re: Video card recommendations...

1998-03-25 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, all i know about these card is that ati dont release specs for ati-tv card and for the tv feature of the ati all-in-wonder, (i have the ati-tv and i regret it)... so i dont think u can get a tv tuner driver soon (i didnt find anything). but the card(the video card) run well on xfree and in

Re: Video card recommendations...

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Currently i'm building a machine and am down to the last piece of hardware, the video card. i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the pro's/con's of the following cards: ATI all-in-wonder Diamond Viper Matrox Millenium II I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X

Re: Video card recommendations...

1998-03-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Ben, I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X great with 32-bit color @ 1600x1200. I'd check your configuration if I were you. The Millenium II's chipset doesn't support [EMAIL PROTECTED], even though you can configure XFree86 to actually run the card at that resolution and color depth.