As far as I can see, it's an Intel chipset based P4. The closed source nVidia drivers should work just fine. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:42 -0400, jack wallen wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 02:25 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > You can try finding an old GF4/4XXX or GF5XXX on ebay. (Or any other > > discount store) > > Both will just fine with the binary nVidia drivers * , and should be > > pretty cheap to find. > > > > * The binary nVidia driver is known to cause problem with older AGP > > chipsets, such as VIA's. Can you post your machine configuration? > > Gilboa > > > > > here's the relevant dmesg output (if this helps at all): > > CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K > CPU: L2 cache: 256K > Intel machine check architecture supported. > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1600MHz stepping 07 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) > mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 > ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd990, last bus=2 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries > PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) > Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0 > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) > Starting kswapd > VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 > devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) > devfs: boot_options: 0x1 > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT > SHARE_I > RQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled > > > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:03 -0400, jack wallen wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 01:58 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > It greatly depends on what you need to do with the machine. > > > > Do you plan on running games or any other 3D software? Do you run > > > > demanding graphical applications? > > > > In general, anything nVidia (I'd stay clear of GF4MXs) will work just > > > > fine using the nVidia binary drivers (from nvidia.com) > > > > Older ATI Radeons also seem to function OK, but their level of > > > > performance (and support) in no-where near the level of nVidia cards. > > > > > > > > But again, all of this depends on what you need. > > > > Gilboa > > > > > > > > > > thank you so much. the primary apps i use are: > > > > > > Scribus (creating some fairly large pdf documents) > > > gimp (creating and editing images for the above) > > > Open Office > > > > > > and then the assortment of internet goodies and various and sundry > > > things. > > > > > > i do play Neverwinter Nights now and again as well. > > > > > > thanks again for all your help. > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:48 -0400, jack wallen wrote: > > > > > anyone have a suggestion for a good video card (not high end) to use > > > > > with FC4? i do a lot of graphics and DTP. thanks. > > > >
