Re: Getting started with Debian - help with Xwindows

Jim Backus wrote:

I was horrified to see the spec of the video card - I'll have to try and buy a better one off ebay - it's probably the only place I'll get a PCI video card.

You can still get PCI video cards new. (And, yes, I really do mean plain PCI, not PCI Express.) The ATI Radeon 9250, for example, comes in a plain PCI variant, sells for around $50 USD, and is well supported by open source Linux drivers.
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