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From: Alan Secker on 12 Sep 2006 10:52
I need to replace my graphics card that died. I have been credited with a
full refund! However, I have to repurchase from the same supplier.
They have an Asus Extreme AX1300PRO Silent 256MB PCI-E DVI/VGA which I
rather fancy. The question is, in the Linux environment will it create
more problems than it solves? Does anyone have any useful suggestions?

TIA

Alan

From: Aragorn on 12 Sep 2006 10:59
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:52, Alan Secker stood up and addressed the
masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake/ as follows...:

> I need to replace my graphics card that died. I have been credited with a
> full refund! However, I have to repurchase from the same supplier.
> They have an Asus Extreme AX1300PRO Silent 256MB PCI-E DVI/VGA which I
> rather fancy. The question is, in the Linux environment will it create
> more problems than it solves? Does anyone have any useful suggestions?

I literally copied and pasted the type of video adapter you spelled out
above into the Google Search box, and the first hit showed me that it was a
Radeon X1300 card with 256 MB of RAM.

Drivers for this card should therefore be available - either via the generic
and free /X.Org/ driver, for as a proprietary driver from ATI.

Other than that, I can't give you any more information, but should there be
difficulties with this adapter, then they're not limited to GNU/Linux only.
The hardware is supported, and that's about all of GNU/Linux can be held
accountable for. ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: Alan Secker on 12 Sep 2006 17:11
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:59:35 +0000, Aragorn wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:52, Alan Secker stood up and addressed the
> masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake/ as follows...:
>
>> I need to replace my graphics card that died. I have been credited with a
>> full refund! However, I have to repurchase from the same supplier.
>> They have an Asus Extreme AX1300PRO Silent 256MB PCI-E DVI/VGA which I
>> rather fancy. The question is, in the Linux environment will it create
>> more problems than it solves? Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
>
> I literally copied and pasted the type of video adapter you spelled out
> above into the Google Search box, and the first hit showed me that it was a
> Radeon X1300 card with 256 MB of RAM.
>
> Drivers for this card should therefore be available - either via the generic
> and free /X.Org/ driver, for as a proprietary driver from ATI.
>
> Other than that, I can't give you any more information, but should there be
> difficulties with this adapter, then they're not limited to GNU/Linux only.
> The hardware is supported, and that's about all of GNU/Linux can be held
> accountable for. ;-)

I guess that' enough to take a chance on. Thank you.

Regards

Alan


From: NoStop on 12 Sep 2006 19:20
Alan Secker wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:59:35 +0000, Aragorn wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 16:52, Alan Secker stood up and addressed
>> the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake/ as follows...:
>>
>>> I need to replace my graphics card that died. I have been credited with
>>> a full refund! However, I have to repurchase from the same supplier.
>>> They have an Asus Extreme AX1300PRO Silent 256MB PCI-E DVI/VGA which I
>>> rather fancy. The question is, in the Linux environment will it create
>>> more problems than it solves? Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
>>
>> I literally copied and pasted the type of video adapter you spelled out
>> above into the Google Search box, and the first hit showed me that it was
>> a Radeon X1300 card with 256 MB of RAM.
>>
>> Drivers for this card should therefore be available - either via the
>> generic and free /X.Org/ driver, for as a proprietary driver from ATI.
>>
>> Other than that, I can't give you any more information, but should there
>> be difficulties with this adapter, then they're not limited to GNU/Linux
>> only. The hardware is supported, and that's about all of GNU/Linux can be
>> held accountable for. ;-)
>
> I guess that' enough to take a chance on. Thank you.
>
> Regards
>
> Alan

Everything I've read has amounted to "stay away from ATI" as they don't
support Linux at all. Nvidia on the other hand is recommended.


--
Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.

From: Dan C on 12 Sep 2006 21:35
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:20:56 +0000, NoStop wrote:

>> I guess that' enough to take a chance on. Thank you.

> Everything I've read has amounted to "stay away from ATI" as they don't
> support Linux at all. Nvidia on the other hand is recommended.

I agree. I would NEVER spend a dime on an ATI card.

I mean, why "take a chance" on it, when you *KNOW* that an Nvidia card
will work perfectly with Linux, and probably outperform the ATI, too?

Get an Nvidia.

--
"Ubuntu" - an African word meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".


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