[Gllug] London councils and Unix/Linux

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:48:38PM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
> Not absolutely sure but I know a lot of old machines have 1,2 and 4 meg 
> graphics using system Ram.  8 and 16mb graphics cards can be bought for as 
> little as £15 from computer fairs and mail order which should be able to 
> handle things like the KDE desktop.  I personally use an 8mb AGP ATI card 
> which runs KDE 2.2 without any problems, though admittedly I have a Duron 
> 650 cpu.

Some of these old boxes have the graphics card as part of the mother board
(eg Dell does this a lot). What happens if you put a new graphics card into such
a m/c ? How do you force it to use the new one ?

Something that I have been wondering about ...

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Alain Williams

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