Walter,<br><br>We sell second hand computer parts from our thrift store at free geek.<br>I think I saw a few old ATI cards last week.<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999">-- Sent from my mobile</div></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On 29 Nov 2011 17:24, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote: <br></span> First a bit of background. After the revelation that the lead
<br>developers for udev want to require that /usr be on the same partition
<br>as / (or else use /initramfs) I looked for a way to dump udev entirely.
<br>Since I didn't know whether it would even boot up, I tested on an older
<br>Dell. Following instructions I picked up on the Gentoo Developers'
<br>list. I replaced udev with busybox's mdev under Gentoo, and it works
<br>just fine so far. I want to use it as my everyday machine for extended
<br>testing. The only problem is that I've subscribed to NHL GameCenter
<br>Live and the onboard GPU (82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics
<br>Controller) in this older Dell is not powerful enough to keep up with
<br>hockey in fullscreen mode. On my newer i3 machine, I've got a choice
<br>between 3 megabits and "adaptive" on the NHL control panel. On the
<br>older machine, that choice is greyed out, and the picture will often
<br>stutter in fullscreen mode.
<br>
<br> I said to myself "No problem, I've got a PCI video card kicking
<br>around. I'll stick it in and I'm set". Unfortunately, PCI slots seem
<br>to have changed over the years, and the video card doesn't fit into the
<br>slots on the older Dell. I don't know the names of the specs, but as
<br>they say "a picture is worth a thousand words". First a picture of the
<br>slots in the older Dell...
<br>http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/slots.jpg
<br>Next is a snap of an older firewire card (left) which fits the slot, and
<br>the spare video card (right) which does not fit...
<br>http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/cards.jpg
<br>
<br> Where can I get a PCI video card that fits into the PCI slots on the
<br>old Dell? And I'd obviously prefer something with opensource drivers
<br>for linux. It would be a shame to throw out an otherwise perfectly good
<br>machine.
<br>
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<br>Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
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