Video card detection

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.6K blaze of typing glory, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Just a question.

[video card upgrade goes smoothly]

> Is this sort of greatly improved video card detection,
> on reboot even, standard with modern linux distros, or
> has lindows gone an extra mile for user convenience?

It's much more common across Linux distributions.  XFree86 does 
much better detection than it used to. The Voodoo driver has also 
gotten a lot of work.
 
> Is this ease of installation due to the fact that these
> are old cards (1999 or 2000) and the driver problems with
> these chips have been resolved?

Yes.

Kurt
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