Video Card

[Josh Coffman]

--- Craig Brooksby <rcbrxb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The westside meeting on Tuesday (covering Joomla!)
> was very good.  You
> got to show up in order to experience it.
> 
> The latest Ubuntu update resulted in it not playing
> nice with my
> cheapo video card.  It fails to enter the desktop,
> and falls into the
> command-line level.  I have been over and over the
> x-configuration
> stuff -- can't figure it out.  Stuck.
> 
> My mobo requires a PCI-E video card -- no support
> for AGP.  THe cards
> were too expensive (last year) so I found a cheap
> PCI video card.
> (yes, plain old PCI),  Worked great (if slow) until
> a few days ago.
> 
> I am thinking of shopping for a PCI-E card now.  I
> went out to the FSF
> site, but there is little detail there.
> 
> Anyone have any practical advice on selecting an
> inexpensive,
> linux-compatible PCI-E video card?
> 
> Thanks --
> 
> Craig

I built a new box a few months ago and put an evga
nvidia 7600gs pci-e in it for about $129 (newegg).
That's not cheap but its a good card for the money. 

for something <$50, i'd look for geforce 5500 or 6200.



http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__eVGA_eVGA_e_GeForce_FX_5500_PCI_Express_128MB_DDR_Video_Card_w_TV_Out_DVI_Retail,__12781708/search=geforce+5500






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