dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux wins a clear knockout in this round! It only took 1 reboot too, > for inserting the hardware.
Yep, Linux was a clear knockout for me when I replaced my Diamond 550 card with a Matrox G450 card. I took my box down, installed the card, edited my X config file (to change nv to mga) and was back in business. Total time from researching the card, to finding the best price and ordering it, to installation and configuration: less than 1 hour. I didn't bother to research whether it would work on Windows, and only found out when I went to play some games a week later that this card doesn't work on Win98 (SE) on my Tyan motherboard with VIA chipset. I spent many, many hours over the course of a week installing drivers, updating drivers, reflashing the bios, re-installing Win98, piddling around with various BIOS and PnP settings, and rebooting, rebooting, rebooting, and I still don't have a working Win98 box, unless you consider 8-bit 640x480 on a 21" monitor "working". -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Seattle, WA, USA | http://www.rudedog.org/ | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
