[Novalug] cheap video card

Matt Bidwell bidwell@dead-city.org
Thu Dec 13 19:53:05 EST 2007


greg pryzby wrote:
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> I am not sure if it is the onboard video or Xorg, but I just realized
> how bad my monitor was... I was missing greys. So I played w/ xgamma to
> get something working. then i connected a mac and it worked great....
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> so X or video card... what do u think? and if video card, what cheap one
> will I be happy with?
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> I will also look to see what driver i am using for the onboard ati crud card
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I can't say much on new video cards other than NVidia=good.
However the proprietry Linux ATI driver has made some leaps
forward in the last few months.  So you might want to try the lastest
version.

Matt



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