Compatible graphic card

[Mike Barnes]

On 11/03/2007, at 10:03 PM, Steven Moix wrote:
> With AC3's recent release it's time to upgrade my PC164LX system,  
> the good old Matrox Millenium is very sluggish under Gnome and I'm  
> shopping for a replacement. I was looking at a 64MB ATI Radeon 7000  
> PCI from Sapphire, you can get them for about 30€ on eBay. My  
> question is quite obvious: do these cards work on 164LX systems?

I've used one of those in my DS10 running Red Hat 7.2 through to  
Alpha Core 2, with a side trip into CentOS, and it's been great and  
well supported. I even believe 3D acceleration is now working again  
in Alpha Core for the first time since 0.9.

I'm _almost certain_ I dropped my Radeon into my 164LX board at least  
once while testing things ages ago, and had no issues there either,  
but you may want to wait to hear from someone who knows for sure. I  
think you'll be fine though.

Funny thing is, that since I killed it (while experimenting with re- 
flashing the ROM) I've gone back to using a Matrox Millenium. I know  
what you mean about sluggish. :) I really much grab another Radeon soon.