--- Markku Kolkka <markkukolkka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you an antiques collector, or do you have any > other sensible > reason for wasting time and money on obsolete > graphics hardware? > The computer is an old Dell without an AGP slot. I had always heard that Linux tends to run better than Windows on older hardware. Also, the very new hardware often has more bugs associated with it. Note that these cards are all listed on www.tldp.org as supported, and they all are recognized and configured. It is just that some don't work, and others are unstable to varying degrees. > > Yes, get a video card that's currently manufactured. > The X > developers aren't likely to spend much effort on > developing > drivers for ancient cards. > > -- There also seem to be a lot of bug reports for newer cards, especially ATI or Nvidia (like the ATI Rage 128 problem). Does this mean that if I try one of the listed cards that are currently manufactured, as long as I steer clear of the ones in the FAQ. And, I think that you meant "maintaining" rather than "developing" drivers, since all the drivers for the cards I have tried have already been developed. They appear in the hardware compatibility lists, and they appear in the README's for xorg, but, they may be "less" supported due to age. This makes sense, but buying 5 different modern cards and having them all fail is an expensive proposition. Perhaps I will try just one. Are there any suggestions for a PCI video card which is "more" rather than "less" supported? All the ones at the store seem to be AGP cards. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
