--- Paul Tansom paul@whaletales.co.uk wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David Freeman wrote:

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Having Just ordered a hardware upgrade for my aging 200mhz K2, I

was

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thinking I might treat my self to a decent graphics card at the

same

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time. So I have a couple of questions.

Which Distro would people recommend for ease of install and maintainance, also are there any which install the bttv driver as default?

I'm just about to make the switch to Debian, so if you are looking to try a distro based on this check out Storm - it has a less complex install than the raw Debian, but is pretty true to its roots. I haven't tried it yet, but apt-get is supposed to be a very nice means of installing updates.

apt-get sounds similair to the pkg management tool under freebsd which would download the required packages when you want to install them.

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Is the GeForce 2 chipset supported under linux?

What are there in the way of Linux games available?

Check out http://www.lokigames.com/

Drool...........

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Can I drive the old matrox mystique with the new Geforce at the

same

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time in the same PC?

Assuming that you can run the GeForce chipset (not sure, haven't used it myself) you can run two cards with Xfree86 - so long as you have a spare monitor ;-) I quite like the idea of running an old 14" screen to watch logs in when I am developing code, but I don't have the space for the extra screen :-( I saw something on this only the other day, I just can't remember where... don't you just wish you could grep magazines sometimes!

Can I run two cards with different chipsets?

Thanks

D

PS I like the sig

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Paul Tansom: Talking to penguins can be inTUXicating, whereas talking to windows is only 1 step away from talking to the wall!

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