<DIV>Hi, Frank</DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the suggestion:)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ron<BR><BR><B><I>Frank Kumro <fkumro@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I really would suggest the newest version of slackware (10.2). I<BR>currently have it running on a 233mhz with 92mb of ram. This is my<BR>file server and it works just fine for me. Since you have a beefier<BR>machine than mine I do not think that you will have any problems. Also<BR>I have ran a PCI TNT2 card with this distro, with X, and fluxbox and<BR>it runs smooth. For updates I use a program called swaret (kinda like<BR>apt) or you could use slapt-get. Let me know if you need any help and<BR>good luck. Also the installer is not hard to use...its very straight<BR>forward.<BR><BR>On 12/7/05, David W. Aquilina <DAVID@STARKINDLER.US>wrote:<BR>> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:21:10AM -0800, Ron Maggio wrote:<BR>> >
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Gainward/CardExpert PCI (this system has no AGP)<BR>> > TXT2 M64 32mb Video Ram<BR>><BR>> Hmm, I suspect that's a TNT2, which should be usable under most with the nv driver. It may not be 3d-accelerated, but it should be sufficient for desktop apps...<BR>><BR>> If you look at the manpage for nv(4), you'll see RIVA TNT2 listed. I'm specifically checking on Fedora Core, but most everything else should be using about the same version of X.<BR>><BR>> What distros have you tried before, and what happened when it tried to bring up X? It may just be that it hadn't correctly detected your monitor and set the appropriate refresh rates.<BR>><BR>> best,<BR>> --<BR>> David W. Aquilina<BR>> david@starkindler.us<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> nflug mailing list<BR>> nflug@nflug.org<BR>>
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