[conspire] (forw) Re: June 25/July 9 MP installfest upgrade RH 7.3 PC to Centos56 continuation

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:18:48 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: wood eddie <ewood111 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: June 25/July 9 MP installfest upgrade RH 7.3 PC to Centos56
	continuation
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting wood eddie (ewood111 at yahoo.com):

> Again thanks for reply just in time, as I was about to make the
> purchase of NVidia graphics card.  with your reply, shall check out
> other AGP cards that not as hostile.

Nvidia cards are highly favoured by gamers for their very high 3D
framerate when used with Nvidia-written proprietary drivers for either
MS-Windows or Linux.  Their current generation at any given date are
past doubt very fast and capable cards for their day.

I haven't needed to buy a graphics card in a very long time, so I'm no
longer really the best person to consult on the subject.  Also, many of
the machines I use have motherboard-integral video, so choice of video
then is academic, because you use what's built in.  Most important, 
being a system administrator, I'm just not very particular about video:
If I can get around 1680 x 1050 at 24-bit colour for regular 2D graphics,
that's all I need, and I don't give a tinker's damn about framerate.

Anyway, here's a list of X.org's drivers, which might help a bit,
especially because the links for each driver shows which specific chips
it's known to support:  http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/Drivers

(Of course, when you're shopping for video cards, one problem is that
the make/model of the card is what you're told, but what you _really_
want to know is the make/model of the card's _video chip_, which you
then need to Web-search for.  E.g., your old Diamond card was a 'Diamond'
model so-and-so, but its video chip was an S3 Corporation something.)


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