Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards
I'm also using "a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card" and it works for just south
of fine. Note however that I'm not a gamer and all the graphics I do is GIMP
(the default potato version). I use the SVGA server for it (available on the
install CD). No crashes thus far here.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote:
> On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
> (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more
> interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
> platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come. I want
> to avoid the situation I'm in now. I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card
> for which there is no X server in the Debian packages. I can get X servers
> elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.
>
> At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury. I'd be grateful for any
> advice, opinions, or caveats.
>
> AdTHANKSvance
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: