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3D graphics Card question / Advice needed!

 
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john biles



Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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Location: Australia

PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:45 pm    Post subject: 3D graphics Card question / Advice needed! Reply with quote

Hello Everyone,
My computer is running a Asus P4V533-MX motherboard with a 2.6Ghz Celeron Processor which has a 128KB cache, 512MB's of Ram. The board has a slot for a AGP 4X Graphics Card.
I have found that my computer runs very slowly when trying to play any 3D linux Game. ( Even the default game included on most Distro's where a penguin slides down a hill made of snow, running over Fish.)
I asked a Computer Store if a Graphics card would help and they said it wouldn't due to the Celeron's 128KB cache and the only was to improve the Speed was to update the CPU to a Pentium 4 or above.
The question I am asking is: Will an Graphics card Help or is the computer shop right?
I believe that adding any graphics card to that slot would help.

Thanks for any advice given Exclamation Exclamation Exclamation Exclamation
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john biles



Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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Location: Australia

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello Somebody,
As nobody replied I posted the same question on other Linux forums and they replied.
I decided to buy an old 32MB AGP 4X graphics card for $25 and play with that for awhile. I have installed it, plugged in my Monitor and rebooted and it works in Windows XP, but Linux isn't Happy, so some work to do!!

Thanks to the other forums for their advice HA! HA! HA! Wink Wink Razz Twisted Evil
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roberts



Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Location: OC CA USA

PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DSL-N uses the tiny K-drive Xserver.
For advanced 3D or even accelerated cards you should use the XFree86.unc mydsl extension. This provides the typical X environment to support such devices/speeds.
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