Re: Replacing a Video Card under Fedora 2

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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

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