Look at the bright side. You now have the excuse to buy a new video card. You can get an older Nvidia Geforce2 for less than $50 at a lot of places (e.g., http://www.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?prodcd=AVGEMX4003 ) that will likely outperform your voodoo3. Also, Nvidia has _excellent_ driver support for Linux, which is why it's easy for Linux to run a game faster than WindozeXP on the same computer/hardware.
-Jeff On Wednesday 31 July 2002 08:22 am, you wrote: > Greetings, > I am having some problems with my video card. It is, or more > appropriately was a 3dfx voodoo3. I guess due to the extreme heat > yesterday, it had a melt-down. It only displays every other letter when I > try and access it directly. I recompiled my kernel to use the framebuffer > device, and it was a temporary console fix. > Obviously, I need a new vid card, my question was, should I > recompile the kernel to include support for the vid card I want to switch > to, and then simply turn on kudzu, power down, and reboot, (using Rh 7.3)? > My X interface is screwed period. However, that is not really a big deal, > as I am pretty cl savy, Any help would be much appreciated before I lose > it entirely. I am not really that surprised, the card is over two years > old. > > Procrastination is the root of ingenuity... > > -- "A furore Normanorum libera Nos 0 Domine!"
