[Gllug] London councils and Unix/Linux

[Jonathan Dye]

At 10:58 11/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>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 ?

In my experience there is usually a jumper on the motherboard to disable
the onboard graphics.

JD


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