Where can I get older PCI video cards in the GTA?

[Ted]

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=319&name=PCI-Video-Cards& 
<http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=319&name=PCI-Video-Cards&>


take your pick, and they are all cheap. :)
-tl

On 11/29/2011 05:23 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>    First a bit of background.  After the revelation that the lead
> developers for udev want to require that /usr be on the same partition
> as / (or else use /initramfs) I looked for a way to dump udev entirely.
> Since I didn't know whether it would even boot up, I tested on an older
> Dell.  Following instructions I picked up on the Gentoo Developers'
> list. I replaced udev with busybox's mdev under Gentoo, and it works
> just fine so far.  I want to use it as my everyday machine for extended
> testing.  The only problem is that I've subscribed to NHL GameCenter
> Live and the onboard GPU (82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics
> Controller) in this older Dell is not powerful enough to keep up with
> hockey in fullscreen mode.  On my newer i3 machine, I've got a choice
> between 3 megabits and "adaptive" on the NHL control panel.  On the
> older machine, that choice is greyed out, and the picture will often
> stutter in fullscreen mode.
>
>    I said to myself "No problem, I've got a PCI video card kicking
> around.  I'll stick it in and I'm set".  Unfortunately, PCI slots seem
> to have changed over the years, and the video card doesn't fit into the
> slots on the older Dell.  I don't know the names of the specs, but as
> they say "a picture is worth a thousand words".  First a picture of the
> slots in the older Dell...
> http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/slots.jpg
> Next is a snap of an older firewire card (left) which fits the slot, and
> the spare video card (right) which does not fit...
> http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/cards.jpg
>
>    Where can I get a PCI video card that fits into the PCI slots on the
> old Dell?  And I'd obviously prefer something with opensource drivers
> for linux.  It would be a shame to throw out an otherwise perfectly good
> machine.
>

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