Graphics card recommendation?

[Rick Stevens]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 15:19 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>>> 2009/6/1 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
>>>> T&L capability
>>> Texture and Lighting capability.
>>>
>>> While I agree that it's a stupid acronym, it's part of a fairly
>>> generic "you can't run this game because..." error which has been
>>> pasted verbatim.
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22T%26L+capability%22
>> Fair enough, though I wonder how many non-gamers would recognize it.
> 
> As the OP, I had never heard of T&L and am certainly no gamer,
> but that is what the error log complains of.
> As far as I can see, it is a standard acronym,
> and it would be as odd to call it Texture and Lighting
> as it would be to call PCI <whatever PCI stands for>.
> 
> Which reminds me - apparently there is a second hurdle
> I have to get over, which is to distinguish between PCI and PCI-E.
> I think the Asus K8V-MX motherboard I am concerned with
> provides PCI slots, not PCI-E.

Try "dmidecode | grep -i pci" and see.  PCI Express = PCI-E.  My
M3N78-VM has both:

[root at hamster ~]# dmidecode | grep -i pci
	PCI is supported
	Designation: PCIEX1
	Type: 32-bit PCI Express
	Designation: PCIEX16
	Type: 32-bit PCI Express
	Designation: PCI1
	Type: 32-bit PCI
	Designation: PCI2
	Type: 32-bit PCI

> Also there is something about AGP, but I'm not sure
> how significant that is, or if it is universal nowadays.

A lot of video cards plug into AGP slots.  dmidecode can tell you.

> Graphics cards are much more complicated than I thought.

Heheheheh!  Amen, bruddah!
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