[hllug] Re: more woes on the video-go-round
- From: Don Crowder <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:39:59 -0500
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:14:59 -0500
Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/12/2009 07:41 PM, Don Crowder wrote:
> > My favorite video resolution is 1024 X 768 w/24 bit color. A few
> > years ago I figured out that any of the assorted flavors of nVidia
> > TNT2 cards supported my chosen resolution in all of the Linux
> > distros I was familiar with at the time so I stocked up on them
> > (they were very inexpensive on eBay) and that was fine for a while
> > except it's not any more.
> >
> > A few years ago a friend gave me a stack of Dell GX115's. These
> > computers have onboard Intel video with about 4 megs of RAM
> > (chipset is 815E). The OS is supposed to assign system RAM to take
> > up the slack and Debian Etch did that just fine. I was able to get
> > 1024 X 768 video on these machines with all the distributions I was
> > familiar with at the time.
> >
> > Debian Lenny (and the entire *buntu family) run at 800 X 600 on the
> > Dell machines. That's the best they'll do. Swapping to the nVidia
> > TNT2 card doesn't help, in fact, I couldn't get X to start at all
> > with the TNT2 card, running Debian Lenny. (Yes, I ran
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg from the CLI, no help).
> >
> > The TNT2 cards are supported by the nVidia 71xx legacy driver which
> > is available in Etch but not in Lenny.
> >
> > So, I can't get the onboard video to do any better than 800 X 600
> > and my nVidia cards are useless. I've googled for a solution to
> > this a few dozen times over the last few months.
> >
> > So, I've decided that I'm going to have to give up some bucks to
> > buy some video cards but my requirements haven't changed. I want
> > 1024 X 768 video w/24 bit color and I don't give a rat's patoot
> > what kind of card it is as long as it's PCI (so it'll fit
> > everywhere I'm liable to need it), runs well in Linux and doesn't
> > cost much. Suggestions?
> >
>
> I have had good luck with nVidia 8300, 8400, and 8600 series cards.
> You can find PCI bus 8400GS cards on newegg.com for less than $40.
> There are also some older nVidia 5200 series PCI cards available for
> the PCI bus at about the same price.
No I can't afford new ones, I want to get some more used ones on
eBay but I need a clue about what to look for.
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