Re: Reasonable graphics card for AWS 500au

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com> writes:

> ATI PCI Rage 128 16MB
> ATI PCI Radeon 32MB
> ATI PCI Radeon VE (7000) 32MB
> ATI PCI Radeon 7500 64MB
> 
> All but the last, you may need to frequent computer flea-markets to
> find, whereas the 7500 appears to be just recently released to retail,
> and is not only a sizeable step upwards in terms of performance, but
> is also cheap (~$80 US in a recent Best Buy flyer here in
> Massachusetts).

I have a Radeon 7500 (although in an AGP slot in a Nautilus), and X
sometimes randomly crashes without anything special going on (about
once every two weeks); also switching to console often very hangs, so
I don't really dare anymore... And you need XFree 4.2, which only
recently entered unstable.

I hope those issues are going to improve, though, so it's probably not
such a bad choice.

-- 
	Falk