[ILUG] My Aunt Tilly

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Niall O Broin wrote:

> hardware - I've no idea what graphics hardware is in this box, but 
> as it's current Dell hardware it's entirely possible that there's 
> no XFree support for it.

Unless this retired school teacher likes to frag things, X support 
will be fine - XFree's nv 2D driver works grand, as does its radeon 
driver[1].

One thing, if the distro's desktop automatically sets up a 
screensaver, make sure to disable the opengl screensavers before you 
leave[3]. ;) Otherwise she'll complain that the machine freezes 
whenever she leaves it alone for a while.. :)

> Niall

1. At least, nv worked fine with some kind of recent NVidia Quadro 
something or another[2], and the radeon driver works fine with my 
R280 (and should support the R3xx chips too, just without hardware 
3D).

2. Well, worked fine a normal monitor, didnt at all like my LCD, 
which apparently is an NVidia BIOS problem which occurs on windows 
too (according to the maker of the LVDS->DVI convertor box for my 
LCD).

3. Unless it happens to be a radeon R1xx or R2xx, which do have 
hardware 3D, thanks to the the weather channel (iirc - dave arlied 
covered history on list before i think).

regards,
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