[lug] New Video Card

[David]

Just for the record...

   Humm...
   
   Unless you are playing games such as Unreal Tournament under Linux,
   a fancy 3D card isn't going to improve the visuals of your 2D X windowing.
   
It did improve text quality, which was what I was after; not a big
amount, but ever little helps when you look at text for hours on end.
Now I do not know just *what* helped - probably not the "fancy 3D..."
as you point out.  The 32mB video memory helps too, a little, with
desktop swapping.

   You might checkout the latest SuSE distro ( 2.4? ). They have always been
   a step ahead in the X server end of things. The latest distro also has
   XFree86 4.0 ( but installs 3.6 by default? ).
   
   First stop on the net should be xfree86.org to see if the chipset of the
   Stealth III is supported.

Thank you for this info.  I did not do it.  RedHat 6.2 has the card
listed.  In case anyone wants to know the spec is PCI S3 Savage4 Pro+
with 128 bit 2D, 3D and video, and 32mb SDRAM.
   
   Hope this helps,
   Doug Bonnell

dajo
   
   > -----Original Message-----
   > From:	David [SMTP:dajo at frii.com]
   > Sent:	Friday, May 19, 2000 7:05 PM
   > To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
   > Subject:	[lug] New Video Card
   > 
   > I bought a Diamond Stealth III S540 in the expectation that it would
   > improve my video quality - this may be a misteak in itself.  However,
   > I have not been able to get RedHat 6.0 to recognize the card.  Stealth
   > II is in the standard list but not III.  I cannot remember exactly
   > what I did or what happens since it has been a month or so since I
   > tried the installation and I have been too busy to keep trying.
   > 
   > Can anyone tell me how to set up for this card, please?
   > 
   > I bought RH6.1 about a day before 6.2 came out, but that does not list
   > Stealth II either.  If anyone knows that 6.2 has the support built-in,
   > please let me know; in that case that is the way I shall go since I am
   > an extremely lazy person and one click has a lot of appeal.
   > 
   > dajo