Need video card recommendation

[Derek Atkins]

Have you tried downloading the ati.2 driver?

-derek

DJ <keitaro at attbi.com> writes:

> At 10:19 AM 4/23/2003 -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> >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.
> 
>    Unfortunately, the only card I can think of that is best suited is
> an ATi All-in-Wonder card.  Any chance of trying out XFree86 4.3.0 to
> see if there were any technical fixes for the radeon card?  Or maybe
> it's the timings (VESA or custom)?
> 
>    Is that motherboard's AGP slot that restrictive to require AGP8x
> cards?  Could AGP4x work with it?  AGP8x cards aren't in abundance and
> it'd baffle me if it cannot take 4x cards.
> 
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