RE: [MLUG] Video Card

["Pepper, Mike" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It's seeming to get along just fine, I just can't see what I'm doing
<grin>
I did have to go into the BIOS and change the CPU Speed from compatible
to Normal
When it was in the compatible mode, the machine was real slow.
Other than that, it seems to work great

Mike  

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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason McIntosh
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Video Card
> 
> You'll find that any of the Optiplex machines are a BEAST to 
> get running with SuSE - it's that onboard intel 815 video 
> card.  hit the same thing with the 260's.  The way I got it 
> to work was used Gentoo with a custom XFree86 4.3 install.
> Anyways, recommendations for a video card - any of the NVidia 
> cards work well.  ATI cards work well too, but usually I have 
> pretty good luck at finding cheap Nvidia cards over ATI.
> Cheers!
> Jason
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> On May 5, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Pepper, Mike wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any suggestions for a new "cheap" video card?
> > I am running SuSE 9.0 Pro on a Dell Optiplex GX270 It has a 
> built in 
> > Intel card that SuSE just does not like.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike
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