[TriLUG] looking for PCI video card

[Jason Tower]

looks like the only PCI card intrex carries is the the ATI Xpert128 which is 
awfully old, and i'm not sure that accelerated 3D drivers for XF86 even exist 
for that chipset.  and i promised myself a long time ago that i would *NEVER* 
under any circumstances purchase anything at BB or CC ever again.

i have a couple of nvidia cards that work fine with the binary drivers, but my 
server (like most) doesn't have a AGP slot.  bummer.

jason

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 14:00, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:41, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:54, Jason Tower wrote:
> > > i need a decent PCI 3D video card (with solid XF86-4 support obviously)
> > > so i can play bzflag at something above 3 fps.  if anyone has one for
> > > sale/trade let me know, hopefully we can exchange at the meeting
> > > tomorrow.  thanks!
> > >
> > > jason
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > Go out and buy a GeForce2MX card.  I believe you can get PCI ones
> > for under $50 at either Best Buy or Circuit City.
>
> $44.99 at Intrex:
> http://intrex.com/parts/VidVideoCard.asp
>
> Note that the nVidia cards require binary drivers to get 3D support.
> The drivers are quite easy to install -- nVidia provides great
> instructions -- but if you like everything to be open source you should
> stay away from this.   Also, if you're running special kernels (2.5
> series, or things like Red Hat's Phoebe beta kernels), you might have
> trouble getting the driver glue code to compile.  For released kernels
> (either distribution-specific or vanilla), you should have no problems.
>
> --Jeremy