On Friday 23 April 2004 17:14, Chris Carlen wrote:
I don't need cutting edge graphics performance. I'd rather a 1-2 year old card that is recognized by X servers back to Suse 8.2 or 8.1. I do mostly 2D CAD stuff, not a gamer. I'd like it to be in the $100-$200 range.
Hi Chris, I have a PowerColor ATi Radeon 7500 128MB DDR. It cost less than the equivalent of $100, and is probably even cheaper now. According to the box it can handle 2048x howmany_ever pixels in 32bit colour, it has normal VGA, DVI and TV out. I only have a 15" monitor, so I couldn't test all that, but the monitor works with the converter on the DVI plug too. Performance is everything you could evern need for 2D, and 3D isn't anything to complain about either. I can play all the new games on that other OS on an AthlonXP 2400+ with 256MB PC133..... Installation on SuSE 8.2 and SUSE 9.0 is a breeze (didn't have it yet before 8.2) - just stick it in and Sax2 will set it up - no messing with funny drivers, binary packages and readme files. Hans -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za