Need video card recommendation

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Wed Apr 23 10:19:56 EDT 2003


I'm in a strange situation.  I replaced my motherboard today with a new 
one, and my video card won't work in it (It's an AGP8X slot).  I have the 
box up and running in text mode, but not having X makes it hard for me 
to work.

I took the video card out of my Windows box.  It's a ATI All In Wonder
7500 Radeon.  It should work with XFree86 4.2.0 under Red hat 7.3, but
every time I startx, I get an "Invalid sync" message from my monitor
(which I have the specs entered correctly for). I tried CtlAlt+ to cycle
modes, but no joy.  I found a web page indicating that you had to set the
driver to "ati" for it to work, but no luck there either.  I would love to 
get this working instead of buying another card, but it doesn't look 
promising right now.

So I'm looking for a new video card.  Prolly buying it tomorrow.
REQUIRED: AGP8x, at least 32MB, works well with XFree86 4.2.0
DESIRED: TV in, works with video4linux, commonly available
NOT NEEDED: SOOPERDOOPER gaming, speed. 

Thanks.

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