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

[Greg Freemyer]

Agreed, I could totally care less about 3D.

I don't seem to have the nv driver available, but I have the nouveau one.

# modinfo nouveau
filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.34-12-default/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
license:        GPL and additional rights
description:    nVidia Riva/TNT/GeForce

But when I tried it, startx failed for some reason.  I didn't keep the log.

I really don't care what driver I use, or if I need to buy a different
card (AGP only), so I'm very flexible on how to get something working.

Greg

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried the open source "nv" driver that ships with X? If this
> is a file server you really don't need the 3D support that the closed
> source driver gives you. The nv driver is 2D only and should work with
> any nVidia card you throw at it, especially older ones.
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Those instructions call for the nvidia 1.0-7174 driver which is no
>> longer available.
>>
>> I tried the nvidia 173.14.25 driver, but it said my old card needed
>> the older 71.86.13 driver.
>
>
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