Re: Video card with many output (VGA, DVI, SVIDEO)

2011-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:05:16 +, Alex PADOLY wrote: > On Debian GNU Linux, I would like to know if all the ouput is active > imultaneously or if you must choose the output will be active? Regards. All the outputs should be active/available by default but only connected devices will be detec

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/27/2010 2:17 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: Heavy 3D support simply requires the NVIDIA blob. No choice. Soon the Nouveau driver will change that, but for now... I disagree that Heavy 3D support requires the NVIDIA blob. You can

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 23:51 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and a

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Reid schrieb: > However, my experience with their binary drivers has been quite > good. They're reasonably easy to install, and seem to perform > quite well for me. In particular, they have one of the best > distribution-agnostic binary-blob installers I've ever run across. Actuall

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/10 13:51, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional vid

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:17:49 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > As long as you aren't wanting to do heavy 3D processing, that is the > best choice. Intel graphics do support enough OpenGL features and > run them fast enough to handle compositing window managers and a good > number of deskto

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 09. 2010 16:46:38 je Enrico Weigelt napisal(a): * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/26/2010 9:46 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS, and their > > binary-only drivers are simply crap. > > I must differ. > > Their closed binaries are usually pretty good. > Sometimes t

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/26/2010 9:46 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS, and their binary-only drivers are simply crap (dont want to flame on their bad coding practises here ;-o). I must differ. NVIDIA don't do open source because they believe they must keep closed

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:44:22 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20100926182947.30489...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com > wrote: > >On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 > >Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > >> > I need to get an agp video card so take the video l

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:40:48 -0400 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2010 10:46:38 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the > > > regular bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the > > > openchr

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100926182947.30489...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 >Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Rick Pasotto schrieb: >> > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the >> > regular bus. >> >> Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 26 September 2010 10:46:38 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games,

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the > > regular bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the > > openchrome driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play > > gam

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Rick Pasotto schrieb: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional video file. Don'

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:37:34 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun September 26 2010, Angus Hedger wrote: > > Sorry for the long post! > > wow, if I was looking for a card, that would be exactly the info I > would want, no less!! > great post! One trys ones best, thanks! > I have DELL desktops

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:51:20 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:51:20 -0400 Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-25 Thread Carlos Bergero
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Probably any on-board Intel chip card would do, if you really only need text. Though if you wont some thing a little bit better, the smalles nvidia available is you choice, drivers work really great in them. Cheers, Carlos El 26/09/10 00:51, Ri

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/10/08 17:45, KS wrote: |> Hi all, | |> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of |> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not |> onboard video card. That isn't a problem

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 17:45, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of >> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not >> onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video >

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 03:45:31 pm KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm a bit

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-04-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:11:20PM +0100, Peter Ellison wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >Peter Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>The GUI I referred to is gnome, desktop, preferences, screen > >>resolution. Took your advise and attempted to reconfig by running > >>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Ellison
Andrei Popescu wrote: Peter Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The GUI I referred to is gnome, desktop, preferences, screen resolution. Took your advise and attempted to reconfig by running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg outside of the desktop environment (ctrl alt F1). It stalled at the second

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Peter Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GUI I referred to is gnome, desktop, preferences, screen > resolution. Took your advise and attempted to reconfig by running > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg outside of the desktop environment > (ctrl alt F1). It stalled at the second screen but I mana

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Ellison
Andrei Popescu wrote: Peter Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all This is a real newbie question and I am now out of my depth. I have built a system out of my scrap box to experiment with Debian (netinst from testing) using a RIVA TNT2 video card(nv drivers) and Panasync 5G crt.

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
Peter Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > This is a real newbie question and I am now out of my depth. > > I have built a system out of my scrap box to experiment with Debian > (netinst from testing) using a RIVA TNT2 video card(nv drivers) and > Panasync 5G crt. The relevant

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-03-31 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Ellison escribió: > Hello all > > This is a real newbie question and I am now out of my depth. > > I have built a system out of my scrap box to experiment with Debian > (netinst from testing) using a RIVA TNT2 video card(nv drivers) and > Pana

Re: video card / crt monitor problem ?

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:21:25PM +0100, Peter Ellison wrote: > Hello all > > This is a real newbie question and I am now out of my depth. > > I have built a system out of my scrap box to experiment with Debian > (netinst from testing) using a RIVA TNT2 video card(nv drivers) and > Panasync 5

Re: video card problem

2005-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
akoman wrote: Hi! I have an onboard video card (82915g) and I could not configure the x windows properly. I tried to find driver on the internet but It seems there is no that kind of driver. Or actually i found one but it is an rpm packet which is for the suse not for the debian! help me!

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-26 Thread Colin
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge main > > I want to know if this xorg works without problem in sarge. It's made for sarge but not officially supported by Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-26 Thread Bruno Costacurta
I used xorg it on my laptop Acer 9100 with Sarge since 2 days. Card video is ATI Radeon X600. And it's working fine. In fact, I moved to xorg because suffered a non-supported ATI Radeon under XFree86 version 4. Bruno On Monday 26 September 2005 06:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 9/25/05, David Clyme

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/25/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: add this to your /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge mainI want to know if this xorg works without problem in sarge. -- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 25 September 2005 15:05, David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:06 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > > lpci returns: > > > > ... > > > > :01:00.0 VGA

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:06 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > lpci returns: > > > ... > > > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown > > > device 3

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > lpci returns: > > ... > > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown > > device 3150 > > ... > > So I suppose this device is not recognized. > > I tried

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:27, you wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > lpci returns: > > ... > > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown > > device 3150 > > You can try running "update-pciids" as root to see if that helps. 'update-pciids' indeed gives good result

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hi, as a Debian newcomer I installed Sarge but cannot start XFree86 as it seems driver for my card ATI Radeon X300 is missing. Where can I grab it ? http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html HTH H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Colin
Bruno Costacurta wrote: > lpci returns: > ... > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device > 3150 You can try running "update-pciids" as root to see if that helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > lpci returns: > ... > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device > 3150 > ... > So I suppose this device is not recognized. > I tried xf86config to configure my X but 'startx' definitely complains with

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
lpci returns: ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 ... So I suppose this device is not recognized. I tried xf86config to configure my X but 'startx' definitely complains with 'no device detected'. Please see attached files for more details. Brun

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-25 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:21 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hi, > > as a Debian newcomer I installed Sarge but cannot start XFree86 as it seems > driver for my card ATI Radeon X300 is missing. > Where can I grab it ? What behavior/error message are you seeing that indicates that the driver you

Re: Video card not recognised

2005-08-09 Thread marc
David González said... > Did you search the ATI web site for a driver? Oh yes. I couldn't find anything, though. > For the > refresh rate, I normally solve that issue by editing the XF86Config-4 > file by myself, you have to put the refresh rates that matches your > monitor. > For example: > ---

Re: Video card not recognised

2005-08-09 Thread Martin Smith
On Sunday 07 August 2005 23:44, marc wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Sarge (with the 2.6.82 kernel) on a P3 using DVDs. > > After installation, and entering KDE 3.3, I found that I only had > 800x600 and 640x480 screen sizes available. > > When running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, the monitor h

Re: Video card not recognised

2005-08-07 Thread David González
Did you search the ATI web site for a driver? Maybe with a driver of them will work better than the built-in driver from xfree. For the refresh rate, I normally solve that issue by editing the XF86Config-4 file by myself, you have to put the refresh rates that matches your monitor. For example: ---

Re: Video card recognition

2004-11-10 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:35:06 +0100 (CET), Vegard Lundby Rekaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use X11, Mplayer and Totem movieplayer > [...] > > > > What player you used? Generally you get good performance with mplayer, or > > xine. >> You can try mplayer using the XV or DGA backend, something l

Re: Video card recognition

2004-11-09 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I use X11, Mplayer and Totem movieplayer > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:06:30 +0100 (CET), Vegard Lundby Rekaa > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I probably should have figured out this by my self, but I have not >> succeded. I'm greatful if someone have an idea what is wrong, or what >> the >> solution mig

Re: Video card recognition

2004-11-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:06:30 +0100 (CET), Vegard Lundby Rekaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably should have figured out this by my self, but I have not > succeded. I'm greatful if someone have an idea what is wrong, or what the > solution might be. > > It seems I havn't got Debian to recogniz

Re: Video card - AGP 8x???

2004-03-02 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 02:58 schrieb Maxime BrouBrou: > Hi, > > I got a Geforce FX 5200 128 mo...and i want to know if Debian will accept > it...and if not...what can i do? > > Thanks you for reply! I have exact the same Card, using driver 5336 wit

Re: Video card - AGP 8x???

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 20:58, Maxime BrouBrou wrote: > Hi, > > I got a Geforce FX 5200 128 mo...and i want to know if Debian will accept > it...and if not...what can i do? Using the EXACT same Card. I use Debian Exclusively. I am using v5336 nvidia drivers for X. I have AGP Status, AGP Rate 8x, F

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: > >Radeon 9200 for $80. I got mine (actually a 9000 for $89 last July) > >from Thompson's Computer Warehouse[1] > >(http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=2396&[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]). > > > >The 9200 is sup

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-09 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Ashley Mervyn Graham optonline.net> writes: > im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the Any nVidia GeForce4MX 440 based card should do just fine. I've got an Albatron branded one that works just spiffy. You can use the generic `nv` driver, or you can download the propr

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-09 Thread Ashley Mervyn Graham
It's not a serious gamer's card, since the 3D support is not very good, but it is crystal clear in 2D, and that's important when you stare at the screen for most of the day... All i really need is 2D support, and movies. Anything else is gravy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-09 Thread Ashley Mervyn Graham
Radeon 9200 for $80. I got mine (actually a 9000 for $89 last July) from Thompson's Computer Warehouse[1] (http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=2396&[EMAIL PROTECTED]). The 9200 is supported extremely well with XFree86 4.3 (currently in experimental) and the open source DR

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Dembinski
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The 9200 is supported extremely well with XFree86 4.3 (currently > in experimental) and the open source DRI drivers. There are also binary drivers from ATI (www.ati.com), which work quite well with X shipped with both woody and sarge. BTW has

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 February 2004 12:14 pm, Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: > hello, > > im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the > current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure > i can, but it's a lot of work, a

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 08 February 2004 22:14, Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: > so, i'm asking for suggestions of video cards under debian/linux, i > would like it to work out of the box, i would like it to be > relatively cheap ($75-$150), it doesnt have to be new, or handle > games, as i use consoles for that. b

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: hello, im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure i can, but it's a lot of work, and i would have to use closed drivers, or whatever they're called. so, i'm asking for sugg

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 16:06, Anthony Campbell wrote: > However, the Matrox driver produced a bad > cursor As I said in other posts, add Option "HWCursor" "off" to the "Devices" section in XF86Config-4. SWCursor makes cursor a bit flickery when the machine is under heavy load though. For sin

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 14:46, Richard Otte wrote: > My 550 is working fine, but I'm not completely sure that I'm using the matrox > driver or if I'm using the XFree one. I'm running testing (version 4.2.1.6 of > xserver-common and xserver-xfree86). In my XF86Config-4 file I have: > > Section "De

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Sep 2003, Richard Otte wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the > > XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. > > My XF86Config-4 includes this: > > > > Section "Device" > > Iden

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Otte
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the > XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. > My XF86Config-4 includes this: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "MATROX CARD 1" > Driver "mg

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-13 at 23:54, David Palmer wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > > Woody. I've successfully upgraded

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread David Palmer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs > when I try to start i

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs > when I try to start it.

Re: video card, dvd/vcd

2003-07-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 31 July 2003 16:38, Preston Boyington wrote: > I am thinking about buying an all-in-wonder card to convert some old vhs > tapes to vcd/dvd. I would like some suggestions/experiences from the group > for software or hardware. For grabbing, you can use xawtv with about any TV card suppo

Re: Video card change on working system

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:23:37PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:24, Mike M wrote: > > Single user mode should be good enough to configure xf86. All that > needs to be done is dpkg-reconfigure in single user mode. Then tell it > to boot to the next runlevel and XF86 shoul

Re: Video card change on working system

2003-02-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:24, Mike M wrote: Single user mode should be good enough to configure xf86. All that needs to be done is dpkg-reconfigure in single user mode. Then tell it to boot to the next runlevel and XF86 should come up and everything. If it doesnt it should drop you to a console

Re: Video card change on working system

2003-02-08 Thread Russell
Mike M wrote: I am going to change my video card to another brand on a working Debian 3.0 system. The monitor will not be changing. Is there a published procedure for doing this somewhere? Something like this? 1. backup stuff 2. disable kdm 2. power down and change video card 3. power up 4.

Re: Video card works - mouse is dead

2003-01-16 Thread Joris Huizer
--- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer said: > > > > Driver: mousedev (this one should have been > loaded) > > Device: /dev/mice/input > > > this should be used if your using a USB > mouse/trackball, not a normal > PS/2 mouse/trackball. You need to be sure the > drivers for the mouse

Re: Video card works - mouse is dead

2003-01-16 Thread nate
Joris Huizer said: > > Driver: mousedev (this one should have been loaded) > Device: /dev/mice/input this should be used if your using a USB mouse/trackball, not a normal PS/2 mouse/trackball. You need to be sure the drivers for the mouse are loaded if it's a USB. I have heard that the package 'h

Re: video card and kde

2002-11-28 Thread Olivier Esser
On Thursday 28 November 2002 13:17, Rodrigo Agerri wrote: > Hi everybody > > I've got an ATI Rage 128PF video card. I am running woody with kernel > version 2.4.18bf24. According to the manuals, it seems that I should use > the r128 driver for my xfree86 configuration. However, the xserver it does

Re: video card help (solved)

2002-10-27 Thread ian
At 09:18 PM 10/27/02 -0800, you wrote: ian said: > Section "Device" > Identifier "NV AGP" > Driver "nv" > # BusID "PCI:0:13:0" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" I would delete the line that has UseFBDev Thanx nate, deleting t

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread ian
At 09:18 PM 10/27/02 -0800, you wrote: ian said: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol"

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ian said: > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > > Option "

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread nate
ian said: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device""/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread ian
At 08:18 PM 10/27/02 -0800, you wrote: ian said: > hi all, > i encountered an error message while trying to switch to graphics mode... > > "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration." > > i am running woody, my graphics card is a nvidia geforce2 mx, my > /etc/var/log/XFree86.0.log con

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread ian
At 08:18 PM 10/27/02 -0800, you wrote: ian said: > hi all, > i encountered an error message while trying to switch to graphics mode... > > "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration." > > i am running woody, my graphics card is a nvidia geforce2 mx, my > /etc/var/log/XFree86.0.log con

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread nate
ian said: > hi all, > i encountered an error message while trying to switch to graphics mode... > > "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration." > > i am running woody, my graphics card is a nvidia geforce2 mx, my > /etc/var/log/XFree86.0.log contains sounds like your X config isn't c

Re: Video card support

2002-04-07 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 06:34, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41 am, Neal Lippman wrote: > > My present monitor is a 19" CRT, but I am strongly considering a move to > > one, maybe two LCD panels - so a card that supports dual monitors would be > > great, but at the least whatever

Re: Video card support

2002-04-06 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:34:50AM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41 am, Neal Lippman wrote: > > My present monitor is a 19" CRT, but I am strongly considering a move to > > one, maybe two LCD panels - so a card that supports dual monitors would be > > great, but at the le

Re: Video card support

2002-04-06 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41 am, Neal Lippman wrote: > My present monitor is a 19" CRT, but I am strongly considering a move to > one, maybe two LCD panels - so a card that supports dual monitors would be > great, but at the least whatever i use needs to work well with a second > card if need be

Re: video card

2002-02-09 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:46:34PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: .. > > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) .. > I found ATI to be the best supported cards in X (

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) > There is a lot of drivers ATI in the l

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07 Feb 2002 18:18:43 -0500 Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Of course if you just want good 2D, you probably don't have anything to > worry about, but if that's all you're wanting then instead of spending > all that money, just go grab a second hand Matrox card off of Ebay, and > you'll

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Sean
I cannot speak from personal experience, but from the plethora of horrible stories I've read on mailing lists and websites about the general hella-crappiness of ati drivers (and no, I'm not just referencing the thread that was featured on hardocp a while ago), I would not suggest an ati card to any

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Timothy Burt
Hi, I believe the ATI xpert 2000 uses the rage 128 graphics engine, so the driver you want is r128. It should work nicely for you. Good luck! Tim On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. >

Re: Video card help, urgent pls

2002-01-11 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:25:35AM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is > supported by XFree86 and if yes how or which > documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot I had Savage2k chipset - it sukx bad. Replaced with Radeon and works perfectly

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:32:34AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc > > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and > pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this > normal or am I missing something? maybe. What point in the install are you up to? The base installation should complet

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread nate
Cary Cherng said: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and > pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this > normal or am I missing something? depending on the card it can be very normal. both my desktop at home and my laptop require special configurat

Re: video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-28 Thread Cary Cherng
No matter what I do this thing refuses to cooperate. The installation goes fine until the x setup. Since it can't detect the video card and manually configuring doesn't seem to work, I let it go with the VGA16 X default but then when it goes to configure i see the nice graphically display. The o

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Gerard Robin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem > to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing > something? I guess that you have potato. do (as root): 1 apt-get install

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread D.
As with any software sometimes it will not detect all hardware. I know on my Laptop I have the S3 Savage and during initial installation this card was not detected, I had to manually configure it. During that process you will get to a data base of video cards and it should be on that list. You n

Re: video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-28 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:47:46AM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > My pc has a diamond v770 tnt2 and my laptop has some kind of ATI mobility > rage 128. I can't possibly see my tnt2 as being too "new". Anyway, I need to > do some manual configuration right? Where can I find info on this? > >

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Cary Cherng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and > pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this > normal or am I missing something? It's pretty normal, considering potato has XFree86 3.3.6 (latest is 4.1.x). -- Brian

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or > am I missing something? Install lspci: $ apt-get install lspci R

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem > to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing > something? > > It's not abnormal. If you're using potato then you'

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