Re: PCI graphics card recommendations sought

From: Lasse Jensen (fafler_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:01:58 +0200

Aidan Whitehall wrote:

> I've got an old AMD K2-500 + 512Mb RAM that is happily dual-booting XP and
> Mandrake 10.0 and would really appreciate recommendations for "the best"
> PCI graphics card that will work under Linux. The on-board ATI Rage Pro is
> tolerable under XP, but sluggish under KDE and Gnome.
>
> As it's an old machine, this is going to be the last graphics card bought
> for it, so I'm after recommendations of whatever PCI card will produce
> the greatest improvement in graphics performance.

Matrox Mystique og Milennium have fairly good 2D accelration and great
Linux support. And you can get them cheap everywhwre. If you want Mesa
support, a Matrox G200 or a 3DFX Voodoo 3 or 4 would be good choices, but
they are hard to find in PCI versions. I have a Voodoo 4 PCI in one of my
machines and it absolutely rules.

You might also want to try a nVidia based card, but last time i tried one,
the binary driver b0rked my system, so i wont give you any recommendations. 

-- 
Lasse Jensen [fafler at linuxmail dot org]

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