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Video Card for Red Hat 8 recommendations?
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| I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but surely
there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
Any recomendations or success stories?
TIA
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Neill Laney
http://home.nc.rr.com/nlaney
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| Tim Prince 2002-10-14, 6:24 am |
| Neill wrote:
> I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but surely
> there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
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All the video cards we have tried worked fine with Redhat 8.0, provided
that the installation was done with "linux lowres." Define what you mean
by a "decent card," and whether you have some specific model of CPU in
mind, and maybe someone could give you more specific advice.
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Tim Prince
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| I'm not sure what the chipset has to do with the video driver, but the
motherboard is an old Gateway with 200 MHz MMX processor and 64 MB RAM. So
I'm using an ISA card which is recognized when probed (I forget which one at
the moment).
What do you mean by "linux lowres"? And what is your definition of fine. My
card works "fine" with windows, but the graphics resolution in a web browser
with Linux is poor by comparision.
The real problem is the resolution I accepted (and tested) during
installation is unusable. I've tried unsuccesfully on RH7 to edit the
configuration file when I was able to work in GUI mode. Since the settings
are unusable for the GUI, I will need to modify this file from the command
line. I'm able to login with my password as a superuser, but I don't know
what to do from there.
I don't want to reinstall the OS simply to make a configuration change.
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Neill Laney
http://home.nc.rr.com/nlaney
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"Tim Prince" <tprince@ywave.com> wrote in message
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> Neill wrote:
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> > I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but
surely
> > there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
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> All the video cards we have tried worked fine with Redhat 8.0, provided
> that the installation was done with "linux lowres." Define what you mean
> by a "decent card," and whether you have some specific model of CPU in
> mind, and maybe someone could give you more specific advice.
> --
> Tim Prince
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| Tim Prince 2002-10-14, 8:24 am |
| Neill wrote:
> I'm not sure what the chipset has to do with the video driver, but the
> motherboard is an old Gateway with 200 MHz MMX processor and 64 MB RAM. So
> I'm using an ISA card which is recognized when probed (I forget which one
> at the moment).
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> What do you mean by "linux lowres"? And what is your definition of fine.
Why are you top posting? linux lowres uses plain VGA mode, to avoid
graphics problems while installing. It has no effect on the installed
graphics, but I couldn't tell from the original post whether you got past
that.
> My card works "fine" with windows, but the graphics resolution in a web
> browser with Linux is poor by comparision.
With the xf86 included in RH 7.2, some cards had to be run as
"unsupported," in VGA mode. I haven't seen any that didn't run in RH8 with
all the resolutions, or more than, supported in WinXP. If your card is
being run in the old CGA mode, which does happen by default with old cards,
I can see that as unsatisfactory.
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> The real problem is the resolution I accepted (and tested) during
> installation is unusable. I've tried unsuccesfully on RH7 to edit the
> configuration file when I was able to work in GUI mode. Since the settings
> are unusable for the GUI, I will need to modify this file from the command
> line. I'm able to login with my password as a superuser, but I don't know
> what to do from there.
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> I don't want to reinstall the OS simply to make a configuration change.
You don't need to reinstall to redo your graphics setup, whether you choose
to use Xconfigurator or some other software.
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> Neill Laney
> http://home.nc.rr.com/nlaney
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> "Tim Prince" <tprince@ywave.com> wrote in message
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>> Neill wrote:
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>> > I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but
> surely
>> > there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
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>> All the video cards we have tried worked fine with Redhat 8.0, provided
>> that the installation was done with "linux lowres." Define what you mean
>> by a "decent card," and whether you have some specific model of CPU in
>> mind, and maybe someone could give you more specific advice.
>> --
>> Tim Prince
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Tim Prince
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| Whoami 2002-10-14, 9:24 am |
| Hi
Neill wrote:
> I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but surely
> there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
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> Any recomendations or success stories?
Best guess in my opinion is nvidia . They build good and fast drivers.
I can use 3D accelaration as well as the TV-out or Dualmonitor-part of
the card .
This is where ATI sucks .
> TIA
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> Neill Laney
> http://home.nc.rr.com/nlaney
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"Neill" <nmlaneyNO@SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:yaxq9.21612$UZ1.804253@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> I understand most driver development is weighted to Windows OS, but surely
> there must be a decent card out there that can used with Linux.
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> Any recomendations or success stories?
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> TIA
> --
> Neill Laney
> http://home.nc.rr.com/nlaney
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What do you mean by decent? the newer versions of Xfree have 2d/3d support
included for pretty much everything up to the original Radeon line and GF 2
line (not 100% sure about the GF2's though). Nvidia has been traditionally
better than ATi about releasing drivers for Linux, but ATi has drivers
posted on their website now for the 8500 (have been up since August I
think), which for them is a step forward.
Kris
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Neill wrote:
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> Video Card for Red Hat 8 recommendations?
> From:
> Neill <nmlaneyNO@SPAMhotmail.com>
> Date:
> Monday 14 October 2002 03:40:30 am
> Groups:
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NVIDIA, Any version!!!!
And they don't beat around the bush - They advertise Linux drivers.
I tried several cards. All works with the Linux driver (XFree) and it's very
easy to install the NVidia driver - And it works VERY well  )
Let me know if you have any problems.
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