On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:57 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: > Except that it hurts my environmentally-conscious self to "throw away" > those desktop machines that are in working order, just lacking a good > video card. > +1, we share same mindset here
> eBay listings for PCI video cards are generally littered with > - ATI Radeon 9200/9250 (which are R200 if I recall correctly) > - nVIDIA MX4000 (of the NV10 family; too old?) It appears so. > - nVIDIA FX5200/FX5500 (of the NV30 family) > > Usually priced at 30$ or so. Perhaps the NV30 cards (such as the geforce > FX 5200 and 5500) would be the only viable option? (if the hardware is > fast enough) > > Looking at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix , I'm not > sure whether or not they are "expected" to run GNOME Shell as good as > the radeon/intel drivers... This thread is parallel to one I started two days ago. Here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264959 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
