On Friday 22 October 2004 10:47, Robin Laing wrote: >BRUCE STANLEY wrote: >> Hi! >> I am currently running Fedora 2 with a Matrox G450 >> card. I am thinking about replacing it with an >> ATI 9200 SE card with 128mb of memory. >> >> Will Fedora 2 support this card? >> >> If so, how should I go about replacing it. >> >> Install new X drive before putting the new card >> in an then rebooting? >> >> Or, Put new card in and let Fedora detect it >> (if it will)? >> >> Any help here would be appreciated. > >My comment is that the question should be phased, does ATI support > Fedora? > >I tried an ATI card on my new computer and went to a NVidia card > after a month of fighting with the ATI drivers and not getting them > to work. > >I do use a ATI 7500 at work with no problems but for the higher end >cards, look at NVidia. Their driver support is better. On another >note, I was reading a review of some software and they said they > could not get the ATI card to work with an NVidia based board with > nForce chip set. This could be an issue as well. And thats exactly my setup. ATI 9200SE, nforce2, glxgears maxes out at 199 fps. >If you don't want 3D acceleration then the ATI card should work > well. You will have to follow the configuration instructions for > the X server. -- And they are located where? >Robin Laing -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
