Video card

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Joel Hammer:
> I just got a new 19 inch monitor (ViewSonic).
> 
> My video card only has 32 megs of ram, and, so I cannot get 24 bit depth
> to work properly at higher resolutions.

Bah. With 32MB RAM, you can run 24-bit color depth at stunningly
high resolutions.

> Could someone offer some video card recommendations that could
> be installed without much hassle on my machine with the following
> specifications? Price is no object. Convenience is, however.

I've had good success with Matrox cards here and Matrox plays 
pretty nicely with the open source community.

> I have an 800mh Athlon machine with 780 megs of ram.
> 
> This is what X -version reports
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
> Release Date: 1 July 2000
> Operating System: Linux 2.2.14 i686 [ELF]    

This is the version of Linux on which XFree86 was compiled, not the
version on which it is running. Here's what I get:

[kwall]$ X -version

This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any
way.  Bugs may be reported to XFree86 at XFree86.Org and patches submitted
to fixes at XFree86.Org.  Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions,
please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository
(http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs).

XFree86 Version 4.3.99.6
Release Date: 18 June 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-krw i686 [ELF] 
Build Date: 24 June 2003
        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

I think your issue is that the version of XFree86 is *way* too old.

> That last line is somewhat puzzling because uname -a reports:
>      2.4.5-win4lin #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

Kurt
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