Quoting myself: > I really _do_ think that used Matrox G200, G400, and G450 cards make > superb (and cheap!) choices for Linux desktops -- if you can find 'em. > If not, any of the standard 2D-video ATI cards, or, heck, the Matrox G2+ > (came after the G200/400/450 series), would be fine.
Someone was kind enough to point out, offlist, that the AGP slots on P4-class motherboards expect to see AGPx4 cards, and cannot run old AGP cards. Matrox G2x0/G4x0 cards of the _AGP_ variety are most surely not AGPx4. Those Matrox cards were also available in PCI form factor, and in my experience (on PIII-class machines) were more than fast enough for any need within reason. I keep a number of those cards around. But things I say related to current-machines' video bus standards should indeed be taken cum granum salis, because I've been hunkered down with gracefully obsolescent gear for several years, and not following newer developments very closely. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
