[Wolves] PCI graphics card wanted

Stephen Parkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Wed Jun 3 16:31:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 01:23 -0700, Adam Sweet wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> 
> > From: dick_turpin <dick_turpin at archlinux.us>
> > 
> > Adam Sweet wrote:
> > 
> > Right, have the plate.
> > 
> > The cards.
> > What one do you need? is it the one with two connector tabs and the Hook
> > lug at the back or just the three connector tabs?
> > 
> > Be advise they are all 8MB we might have slightly better but it means
> > pulling out boxes so I'd like to know what we are looking for.
> 
> Oh, anything really, it doesn't need to special, I just need to be able to get a CLI console, I won't be using a GUI (cos I'm 'ard, me) :-) But a low profile bracket would be a real help as it means I can use the other full size PCI slot for a RAID controller of some kind.
> 

I think the ultras use a framebuffer for the command line (and a really
nice font too) so although it doesn't have to be anything special it has
to be something reasonably modern.

I think they came with early Radeons so ATI cards should be supported
out of the box.

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