[Cialug] Graphics card

[Renegade Muskrat]

Thanks everyone for the replies. The graphics card was an ATI Radeon 
X300. Today i got it working. In case anyone is curious, this page 
contains all the information (and Debian packages) necessary to make it 
work: 
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html

Unfortunately, the drivers are not Free. <sigh> I'm thinking of 
building a new home machine soon (my current one is about 7 years old; 
amazing how long Linux can keep old hardware useable). Are there any 
modern graphics cards with 3D acceleration that have open source 
drivers? ATI and Nvidia are the main companies, correct? But if i 
understand the current market correctly, they only have proprietary 
closed drivers.


At 05:31 PM 9/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
 >Does anyone know what graphics that a Dell OptiPlex GX280 has? The
 >system service tag is 2TCCZ61, if anyone knows how to get a hardware
 >spec sheet from that i would be most grateful. The graphics are
 >provided by an expansion card that came installed in the machine by
 >Dell (i didn't see any obvious manufacturer names on the card). I'm
 >trying to get Debian set up on this machine but don't know which X
 >video driver to use. Knoppix 3.9 uses "vesa"; but i'm sure this 
machine
 >can do better than that. Any ideas on how to find out what this thing 

 >uses?
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