[ale] Decent low-cost AGP graphics card for a server

[James Sumners]

Any old nVidia card should work.

http://tr.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#Legacy_chipset_support

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm rebuilding an old server into a linux fileserver.  (It was windows before.)
>
> I've got it running fine with text, but no X graphics at all yet.
>
> I occasionally like to startx and use a gui even on a server, so I'd
> like to get X working.
>
> The MB on this thing is only PCI or AGP.
>
> I tried a couple of AGP graphics adapters I had laying around, and at
> least at first blush they weren't supported by the latest openSUSE
> release (11.3 from 2 weeks ago).  I assume they were too old, or
> simply never supported.
>
> One was an old nvidia card and I even tried downloading and installing
> the old 71.86.13 nvidia kernel module.  (In theory they have kept it
> compatible with recent kernels, but it didn't work for me.)
>
> Does anyone know of a AGP graphics card I can still buy and that is
> supported in a recent kernel (ie. 2.6.34).
>
> Thanks
> Greg


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