Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving my problem I felt a new subject was in

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving my

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been about 26 years ago. Getting a new board might

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 02:58 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: IMNSHO, unless this is a *workstation* where you do lots of OpenGL visualization, or you are dual-booting to play Crysis, Linux users just don't *need* uber-video performance. Thus, I go for good-enough-but-silent over raw power which is overkill 99.999% of the time

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/24/2009 05:07 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: IMNSHO, unless this is a *workstation* where you do lots of OpenGL visualization, or you are dual-booting to play Crysis, Linux users just don't *need* uber-video performance. Thus, I go for good-enough-but-silent over raw

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 16:39, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that