[luau] video card woes... Or opportunity?

[Jeff Mings]

Look at the bright side.  You now have the excuse to buy a new video card.  
You can get an older Nvidia Geforce2 for less than $50 at a lot of places 
(e.g., http://www.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?prodcd=AVGEMX4003 )  
that will likely outperform your voodoo3.  Also, Nvidia has _excellent_ 
driver support for Linux, which is why it's easy for Linux to run a game 
faster than WindozeXP on the same computer/hardware.

-Jeff

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 08:22 am, you wrote:
>  Greetings,
>  	I am having some problems with my video card.  It is, or more
>  appropriately was a 3dfx voodoo3.  I guess due to the extreme heat
>  yesterday, it had a melt-down. It only displays every other letter when I
>  try and access it directly.  I recompiled my kernel to use the framebuffer
>  device, and it was a temporary console fix.
>  	Obviously, I need a new vid card, my question was, should I
>  recompile the kernel to include support for the vid card I want to switch
>  to, and then simply turn on kudzu, power down, and reboot, (using Rh 7.3)?
>  My X interface is screwed period.  However, that is not really a big deal,
>  as I am pretty cl savy, Any help would be much appreciated before I lose
>  it entirely.  I am not really that surprised, the card is over two years
>  old.
>
>                  Procrastination is the root of ingenuity...
>
>   -- "A furore Normanorum libera Nos 0 Domine!"