Antique Video Cards

[James Hubbard]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com> wrote:
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:11 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> > Subject: Re: X.org server 1.5: An ABI Too Far?
> > To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
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> > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf <at> omen.com> writes:
> >
> >> I checked with several of the area computer parts stores and
> >> didn't find any PCI-E video cards old enough to work with
> >> the open source ATI driver.
> >>
> >
> > A Radeon X1050 (which is an RV370 chipset, supported in both 2D and 3D by the
> > Free radeon and r300_dri drivers) shouldn't be that hard to find. I don't know
> > where you live, but where I live there are several such models available.
> >
> >         Kevin Kofler
> >
> The Portland Oregon area isn't the technological outpost it was when
> I start work at Tektronix in 1968.  I checked Iguana Micro, ENU,
> Pace Computers, and Fry's web sites.  Chances are they sold X1050
> PCI boards at one time, but no more.  Fry's did list an AGP board,
> but AGP is so yesterday.  My last four motherboards are PCI-E.


I checked NewEgg.  They have 6 different versions of the X1050 in
PCI-E.  The cheapest is ~$25.