Re: [LUG] Pub

[Aaron Trevena <betty at termisoc.org>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Keith Langmead wrote:
> On another note, I'm currently looking at getting a new PC
> (chas/jon/aaron/rob can testify to how old it is), and while reading through

ha ha ha! ancient!

> the recent lug-list e-mails I had a thought. Needless to say I'll be putting
> Redhat on the new box, 

Oh come on keith, youre not a newbie anymore go for debian or SuSE!

> and needless to say I'd like to be able to get a
> better resolution in X than 800 x 600. So what I'm after are recommendations
> as to good graphics cards which will be detected/setup easily, or those
> which should not be touched with a barge poll if I want an easy life. To
> give you an idea, I'm looking at getting a 16MB card, and thought of the
> Voodoo3 3000, opinions?

My guillimot Voodoo Banshee based card is detected very well and set up
well nicely by the SuSE Yast Install. SuSE work very closely with both
XFree86 and Vendors and I reckon they have one of the best V/card support
about (way better than NT probably matching 98!).

A.

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