which mid range video card do you recommend

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Points you should be fine....If you go to ati's site and fake a driver download you can get the new 9.4 ccc.


I can't tho gadamit...lol

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looks good guys , thanks ... Nvidia it will be ..

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Whoa guys...slow down!!! If the "Manufacturer" doesn't have the drivers, all is not lost !! Get'em here:

Ummm...... Saddle Tramp that is the manufactures site....

hmmmm...."Visiontek", with ATI Radeon chipset...I'll meet ya halfway, Visiontek made the board, ATI made the chip

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All that matters on any hardware is who and what made the chipset....for drivers that is.


If you follow through with the ati driver download you will see that for those cards listed on my post will not install 9.4 ccc.So I can either stick with anything with an older kernel(or xorg),try to find/hack the kernel,just use xp,hit Points up for his ati card(I know its supported)or just buy an nVidia card...All tho I did find this german gent who made a debian distro,and uses his own kernel for ati graphics that seems to work with the new xorg/kernel.
Check out the ubuntu forum.You will see the fun they are having with users updating with the non supported ati cards....

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All that matters on any hardware is who and what made the chipset....for drivers that is.


If you follow through with the ati driver download you will see that for those cards listed on my post will not install 9.4 ccc.So I can either stick with anything with an older kernel(or xorg),try to find/hack the kernel,just use xp,hit Points up for his ati card(I know its supported)or just buy an nVidia card...All tho I did find this german gent who made a debian distro,and uses his own kernel for ati graphics that seems to work with the new xorg/kernel.
Check out the ubuntu forum.You will see the fun they are having with users updating with the non supported ati cards....

Oh I can imagine LOL...My wife's XP system has an old agp ATI card with the first version of CCC they came out with...nothin' but headaches and a fubar'd system with it installed...ended up just running the drivers for her card without installing CCC...a newer card and CCC would prolly work, but she's doin' fine with what she's got...IMHO, AMD (less ATI) & nVidia has done the best job of supporting Linux...

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I might add that they didn't just drop support for linux.They did it for microsoft too...so I among thousands are being forced to buy new hardware..in just a short time that we owned our cards....F@#$ ati lol.Im going to buy me a nvidia card.Sad...out of 15 odd years Ive always bought ati....maybe ill buy my first intel too lol.

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I might add that they didn't just drop support for linux.They did it for microsoft too...so I among thousands are being forced to buy new hardware..in just a short time that we owned our cards....F@#$ ati lol.Im going to buy me a nvidia card.Sad...out of 15 odd years Ive always bought ati....maybe ill buy my first intel too lol.

Well, with nVidia you can't go wrong....but Untel?!?!? c'mon man...any search thru any forum will show you (I dare say) 3x's the problems with Untel that there is with AMD!!! Slow down, have another cup of coffee, and WAKE UP!!! LOL nVidia: No Doubt!!! Intel: Give it some more thought!?!?

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Your right I don't think I can bring my self to buy intel.My lap top has an intel but I bought it cheap with a bad drive.

Why the heck is that here?look at the bottom of the pic.......this aint no freaking windos forum