[olug] Spare old AGP card?

[DYNATRON tech]

i've got a pile of extra AGP cards. nothing too fancy though. you can have
one for 5$ if you feel like taking a drive (15mi south of west omaha). just
contact me off list for directions, etc.

another good place to check would be jay at Reboot The User. he's got piles
of hardware, and he's a true linux fanatic, so i'm sure he would have some
good advice for you as well. he's located in west omaha.


On 9/21/08, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had been trying to get my buddy to consider Linux for a long time.
> Finally he gave me a really old box and asked me to get Linux on it.
> It was his old, spare gaming box.  The good news it that openSUSE
> installed and is working fine on it.  The bad news is that he had some
> Windows games on it (that I can hardly believe the box ran such as
> Half Life 2) and I told him that Steam worked fine on Wine, so I'd get
> them running with no problems.  Except, the CPU in the box is an AMD
> Thunderbird, which doesn't support SSE instructions, and the Nvidia
> driver won't work without SSE instructions.
>
> The box will work as a desktop, connect to the internet, etc.  However
> it just took a step backwards due to Linux, and here I am
> over-promising and under-delivering.  I feel like a schmuck.  I wonder
> if anyone would swap me this GeForce 5500 for perhaps an ATI card or
> something that might atleast offer any openGL support at all?  It
> would be nice to be able to load any game, and maybe even show off the
> Compiz good-ness.
>
> Thanks!
>
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