Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv



On 2011-04-02 22:16 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:

On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]

My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by
the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it,

Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2.

NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce 5200 for $30 and GeForce 6200 for $35,
and they might be even cheaper on eBay.

The only question is whether any of these cards will be compatible¹ with
the AGP slot in Stephen's board.

Sven


¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port#Compatibility


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