Re: [newbie] Video cards for P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM

2001-09-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
OK. Tnx Franki for giving me a smack around the ears for trying to put a monster graphics card in an old machine. Randy, the main reason is that eventhough I am running 800x600 on a 17 monitor and can see the whole screen perfectly, the full graphics under X do not display of the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Video cards for P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Randy, the main reason is that eventhough I am running 800x600 on a 17 monitor and can see the whole screen perfectly, the full graphics under X do not display of the Mandrake Software Manager i.e. the screen doesn't refresh after closing the 'You have not

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
ummm, Just my opinion, although I suspect that it will be reflected by others... 1. A P100 will have nowhere near the power to supply a geoforceII or III.,. and if you can aford one, why not update the whole system. 2. I have never seen a PCI geoforce, and Pentium systems never had AGP to my

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Franki, wish I was joking. Unfortunately I am unemployed right now and the only machine I have besides a 486 is this P I I got 5 years ago. The software manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I therefore want to increase my video card. I figured the Voodoo 3 would

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Franki
: [newbie] Video cards Franki, wish I was joking. Unfortunately I am unemployed right now and the only machine I have besides a 486 is this P I I got 5 years ago. The software manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I therefore want to increase my video card. I figured

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Randy Kramer
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: The software manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I therefore want to increase my video card. Tell us more -- do you need higher resolution or what? Is the screen display bigger than the CRT so that you have to scroll? I'm just

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Gary Chisholm
If you like, I'll donate you an older card thats sitting here collecting dust (older Voodoo), as long as you use you're money to buy Power Pack 8.1 when it's release. Email me back if you like to have it. Gary Chisholm MUD Just another Mandrake User ;) On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:18, Hylton

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-24 Thread Hans N.
Visionteck and PNY both have GeForce 2 MX400 64 meg PCI cards. I believe Visionteck also has a 32 meg GeForce 2 MX200 PCI card as well. Just my 2 cents. Oh, and a side story, kind of sums up Frank's post. One day several years ago, I walked into a Best Buy. I wanted to ask the customer service

RE: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread Rod Walsh
ATI Radeon 32MB DDR is an excellent card but - beware LMD8.0 drivers will have major problems. Solutions have already been on this list but I'm waiting for 8.1 - next week (should work out of the box) At 20:51 17/09/2001 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread PENA FAMILY
I run the Radeon 64Mb DDR card under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 without incident. Is there any change with winmodem in either 8.0 or 8.1? I would like to just plug and play with my winmodem without having to get a new real modem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread etharp
my bet is that until you read about PCTel opening up the source, and that won't happen until after M$ opens their source for the windows9x kernel. (read: NEvEr). I believe it has MUCH less to do with linux and it's development that it does with the DCMA and US law. (we in America are out to

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-19 Thread Mohammed Arafa
- From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:27 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Video cards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001

Re:[newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Adrian Lynch
I was looking at the new KyroII cards but I haven't seen much info with regards to compatability, anyone know any different? So, with all the discussion about nVidia cards, what is a good card to run? I am going to upgrade cause my little 4mb ATI Rage doesn't even get tux down the hill. I

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
The concern being that unix systems are dynamic, it is what gives them their strength, what makes them powerful and secure. The availability of code allows for the most powerful systems to integrate togther. Providing static binaries make either the system or the driver unusable in a dynamic

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 17 September 2001 07:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia GeForce II on an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have ABSOLUTELY no problems with it; Anyways, I was just posting this to let people who

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-17 Thread ddcharles
Hi, I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia GeForce II on an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have ABSOLUTELY no problems with it; in fact, I followed the directions that I found on nVidia's page, and on MUO, and voila, fait accompli! I have nice gfx, can

RE: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:55 PM To: Dennis Myers Cc: Newbie Linux-Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Video cards Hi, I don't know what I am doing different, but I have

Re: [newbie] Video Cards, any good?

2001-09-15 Thread civileme
On Saturday 15 September 2001 02:06, Adrian Lynch wrote: I'm about to buy a new video card, either a 3D Prophet 4500 PowerVR KyroII 64MB AGP, or a VIVID! XS Kyro II 32MB AGP. Can anyone tell me what the compatability is like with these and Mandrake 8.0, or a place I can find out? Lovely

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-12-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: So, I'm thinking that the Voodoo maybe my best bet...I found a 5500 AGP for $199 If I might be so bold as to ask, where? ;-) BTW, anyone know anything about the 4500? Its a lower priced alternative to the 5500, but seems to have better hardware stats than the

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 01 December 2000 02:06 pm, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Believe it or not, Best Buy "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: So, I'm thinking that the Voodoo maybe my best bet...I found a 5500 AGP $199 If I might be so bold as to ask, where? ;-) Pricewatch has 'em startin at $169.

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-11-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 30 November 2000 09:40 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: What do you guys think of G-force Video Cards? What do you think the best Video card for a Linux box is? I don't have one, but I'm prob'ly gonna build a new Tbird- 1000/KT7 box after Christmas, and I haft'a consider a

RE: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-11-30 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, Tom. Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Cards On Thursday 30 November 2000 09

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: What do you guys think of G-force Video Cards? What do you think the best Video card for a Linux box is? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 i have a guillemot proher ddr geforce. i love it. linux finally loads my gforce driver and it works with

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-04 Thread Mark Potochnik
My Matrox G400 works fine... I suggest getting a separate TV Card if you want TV Any suggestions for a good TV Card(cheap)?? MarkP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-04 Thread Wayne Petherick
Joe, you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there. Most of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around. Wayne At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote: The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX  VooDoo cards but even with those I don't think you can get

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX VooDoo cards but even with those I don't think you can get video out on anything but there AGP cards not on their PCI cards. The Viper 550 and all the ATI cards are AGP. Sorry Charles - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

2000-05-03 Thread Piero
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments about S3 cards in general

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

1999-03-17 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Internet Service Jeremy wrote: I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, so anyone recommend me get a certain one. Thanks in advance

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

1999-03-17 Thread Kuraiken
I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, so anyone recommend me get a certain one. Thanks in advance It depends on what you want to use it for. I'd imagine X?