On Tuesday 14 November 2006 22:07, William Case wrote:
Hi Anne;
That is why I am spending so much time on this.
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:56 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 19:49, William Case wrote:
If it is a driver locking problem, then there can be an expectation that it is being worked on. Buying a new video card is a $200 - $300 solution,
That depends on your expectations. You wil get a video card for a fraction of that, that will way out-do your ancient one. My local vendor offers a choice of PCI card, ATi AGP card or NVidia AGP card, all from £20ish, and both of the AGP cards have 128MB memory.
Anne
My present ATI Rage is a PCI, AGP with 128 MB of memory.
If you can change to AGP, do. Others have suggested what they consider reasonable price cards capable of doing compiz etc. I don't need it, so I couldn't comment on that. Nor do I need 3D at all, so I don't bother with the proprietary drivers. It's all a matter of deciding what matters to you and how much you are prepared to spend to get it.
Anne