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Need video card recommendation



On Wednesday 23 April 2003 12:46 pm, Scott Prive wrote:
> > I will see if XFree86 4.3.0 is available for Red Hat 7.3.
>
> You may have reasons for not wanting to, but try Red Hat 9.0 or even 8.0.

The only reason is that this server has a ton of functionality on it, so 
recreating the functionality with a new OS is non-trivial and time-consuming, 
and while my box is down my mail bounces.  I will do it, but not quite yet.

> Red Hat 7.3 is much older than your motherboard, which might mean something
> is not autodetected correctly. You might find out what needs to be tweaked
> manually, but chances are the newer versions will 'just work'.

As it happens, someone on the red hat mailing list with the same motherboard 
was able to help me.  One of the modules (the agp module) needed a parameter 
to work.

Still don't have sound working, but I have the sblive card from the old 
motherboard to throw in there if necessary.

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