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

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Preston Boyington
> <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed August 4 2010, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>>>> I've found a number of references to the 71.86.09 not working with
>>>>> modern X or modern kernels.  Not sure which is the problem.
>>>> what about trying the Live-CD, say Ubuntu.. maybe it would setup your older
>>>> card..
>>>
>>> If it works, how does it help me with my openSUSE install?
>>>
>>
>> I think Paul might have been suggesting that you see what driver the
>> LiveCD used and then do the same for your OpenSUSE.  not moving the
>> machine to a different distro.
>
> Downloading.
>
> I'll try it in the morning.
>

Not sure I could repeat the process, but I have it working.

I have the intel_agp module loaded.  I think that's a video module.

And in xorg.conf it says to use the nv driver.

Anyway it seems to be working so I'm going to leave it alone for a while.

Greg