Re: [PLUG] Video cards with 3D Hardware acceleration in X

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Gregson Helledy wrote:

> A friend wants to add a better video card to her PII-400 machine.
> I'm not sure how worthwhile it is for a machine that old, but it's what
> she wants.  The machine does not have an AGP slot.  She has an
> interest in linux and so ideally the card would have 3D hardware
> acceleration under linux.  It should be a 32 or 64MB card.
>  
32MB is plenty, but not having an AGP slot is bad news when it comes to 
speed.

I'm pleased with my GeForce2 GTX even though I have to load a few RPM's 
for acceleration.  It actually works better under Linux than it does 
under WinXP.

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