[Cialug] Graphics card

[Josh More]

There is a free/libre project for the ATI cards at
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ 
In my experience, it works well, though it can be a pain to set up. 
 
I used to use it to get TV-out working on older cards.  I replaced that
box a year 
ago, so I do not have recent experience with the project. 
 
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-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701 
 
 

>>>dramaley at spatulacity.cx 09/06/05 11:27 pm >>>
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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