[NBLUG/talk] Re: [NBLUG/Announce] InstallFest; May 14th

[Christopher Wagner]

It's worth a shot, Lynn..  There'll be plenty of people there to help
out, I believe.

- Chris

LynnSears wrote:

> Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:03:46PM -0700, LynnSears wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The xfree link to video cards
>>> http://www.xfree.org/cardlist.html
>>> was not found.  Could you suggest another source?
>>> thanks....Lynn
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I can't find an equivalent anymore...  That page used to list all of the
>> supported cards.  From some googling and poking around on the
>> xfree86.org
>> and freedesktop.org websites, it looks like the whole "video on
>> linux" thing
>> got complicated enough that it really doesn't work on a single webpage
>> anymore...
>>
>> What video card do you have?
>>  
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> Thanks for answering,  I have what dell calls a RADEON X300 series.  I
> have been poking about on the web and see that people are having
> trouble with the Dell 8400 series and linux installs and it sounds
> abit complicated to me.I was trying to get a dual boot going with xp
> and suse 9.3 or some other newer linux distro.  I bought this machine
> recently new in box off ebay. It seems to work just fine. 3GHz  P4 600
> series, 512mb, sata 80g hd with the video card in a pci e x16 slot. It
> has a cd rom and a cd-r/rw both samsung. The network adapter is a
> Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit which I think is supported by linux
> and usb controller is Intel 82801.  I list all this stuff in the hopes
> that someone might be able to tell me whether a trip to the upcoming
> install fest might result in a dual boot dell. I surely would like to
> try and make it happen.  thanks...Lynn
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