Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-11-02 Thread Robert Beach
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, budest wrote: Same here GeForce 4. Just make sure you follow the Readme to the letter. I am operating in Mandrake with a GeForce4 and all is well. On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 9:05 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I purchased an ATI Radeon 8500 for my dad's

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Robin Turner
Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I purchased an ATI Radeon 8500 for my dad's machine thinking it would have good 3D acceleration support, being that it wasn't the latest 9000 and that it's on the Mandrake supported hardware list. Plus, I like to use open source drivers. As it turns out, the 8500 does

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread budest
I am operating in Mandrake with a GeForce4 and all is well. On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 9:05 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I purchased an ATI Radeon 8500 for my dad's machine thinking it would have good 3D acceleration support, being that it wasn't the latest 9000 and that it's on the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I have installed two days ago a Creative 3D Blaster 4 Titanium 420 (with Nvidia Geforce4 titanium chip) and it is runing fine; even I haver reached to activate the tv-output and I can watch xine-dvds and tv decodified in my tv :-) On the other hand the acceleration 3d (DRI) is esplendid and

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 04:57 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I purchased an ATI Radeon 8500 for my dad's machine thinking it would have good 3D acceleration support, being that it wasn't the latest 9000 and that it's on the Mandrake supported hardware list. Plus, I

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:00 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: Skip the MX in favor of what? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:45, FemmeFatale wrote: At 07:59 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: Then again, there is always the VGA CHAINTECH GEFORCE4 MX440 64MB for $20 cheaper. - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Wow, so a Geforce4 MX will run worse than a Geforce2 vanilla? That's not a very good naming convention then. Thanks for giving me a heads up. I'll have to do some more digging and see what's available. - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:59, FemmeFatale wrote: Oops... forgot to say skip it in

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-10-29 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:13 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: Wow, so a Geforce4 MX will run worse than a Geforce2 vanilla? That's not a very good naming convention then. Thanks for giving me a heads up. I'll have to do some more digging and see what's available. - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:59, FemmeFatale