Comments on: Which video card should I buy?

By: Moriwa

Moriwa — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:57:03 +0000

whatever

By: Moriwa

Moriwa — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:53:53 +0000

I recently purchased an ATi PCI vga card. I want to install it on an HP Compaq machine - D220 model. By the way the current vga is on board but is shaky and the images get distorted sometimes. When I slot in the new card the monitor does not come on on either cards. And unfortunately I could not find anywhere in the bios where to disable the embedded vga. Some technician in the shop I bought the card says the PCI card cannot work because the PC has AGP provision. So I must buy another card but an AGP this time. What do you think? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!

By: BrokenCrystal

BrokenCrystal — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:22:34 +0000

I would like to help with development, unfortunately I only have experience programming in a Windows environment. I have two notebooks running Vista/Ubuntu dual boot, a desktop running Ubuntu/XP dual boot, and at work all we have is XP Pro and menu driven IBM AIX Unix. I have been playing around with Mono and Mono Develop, but that probably wouldn’t help you out a whole lot with Jackfield… That said, let me know if I can assist in any way.

By: ken

ken — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:32:21 +0000

A year ago, I had a similar problem, and went with an ATI 9250 (actually rebranded by Sapphire). At the time, I think, the 9250 was the fastest ATI card supported by free drivers.

The DRI wiki has more info on specific compatibility, e.g.:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI

By: sil

sil — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:46:18 +0000

Jonathon: stunner. What a hero you are.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:24:54 +0000

Check out http://free3d.org/ for a performance comparison of cards running with free (libre) drivers. ATI will be the way to go. It’s just a matter of figuring out which model you want and can locate/afford.

By: sil

sil — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:22:44 +0000

BrokenCrystal: no, it doesn’t. Jackfield development happens on my laptop computer.

By: BrokenCrystal

BrokenCrystal — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:12:35 +0000

So you are looking to buy a new video card… This wouldn’t have anything to do with Jackfield’s continued development, would it? Is this a hint that Jackfield will be getting some extra attention soon or should I settle down a bit? I remember you posting earlier that you didn’t have the video card, so you could not test some things…

By: sil

sil — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:13:55 +0000

Karl: there’s no budget for a whole new motherboard, sadly, added to which is the fact that if I bought a new motherboard and had to wire it up myself then I’d probably short it out.

All: thanks for the recommendations: this is really useful!

By: Dennis Fisher

Dennis Fisher — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:21 +0000

Sounds like the 9250 will be cheaper and run compiz, but just for the record I’m running with a Radeon 9600 under the open driver and everything in compiz works for me and works well so far except for the blur plugin, which crashes X completely. For all I know it could just be a software issue though, especially since I’m using Trevino’s repository.