terrorhawk
September 11th, 2009, 06:36 AM
Hey guys I have a question I'm wondering if someone can help me with.
I recently decided to stop using Windows as a whole, and I went from dual-booting Windows XP to using Ubuntu only. I have no regrets so far except I need help regarding two things:
1.) I know that the Intel 82845G integrated graphics controllers are black-listed until notified otherwise, but I plan on buying a new PCI (I cannot use PCI-E so I'm limited to PCI) graphics card and I'm just not sure if I'll be able to use it on Linux as far as drivers and automatically installing them goes.
1a.) Also, the PCI cards I've found are 256MB and 512MB cards. There are ATI and also NVIDIA graphics available to me... which would you guys recommend?
2.) I've upgraded graphics cards before, on much newer PCs as well, but always used Windows and never Linux. I know that I'll have to use the Dell BIOS on my PC to go in and manually disable the onboard graphics in order to allow the PC to let the new PCI one work, but will that affect Linux at all?
2a.) After I boot into it or can I run a hardware drivers upgrade and have it work? I'm just making sure I do it all the right way.
I know PCI cards aren't great, but I've found some good ones to replace this outdated piece of junk, seeing as how I can't afford a whole new computer. The Intel card I currently have only has 64MB of RAM on it and, let's face it, sucks *** when compared to even slightly newer things.
Here's some specs on the Dell:
Dell Dimension 2400
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz
2GB RAM
Intel 82845G Integrated Graphics Controller
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
I recently decided to stop using Windows as a whole, and I went from dual-booting Windows XP to using Ubuntu only. I have no regrets so far except I need help regarding two things:
1.) I know that the Intel 82845G integrated graphics controllers are black-listed until notified otherwise, but I plan on buying a new PCI (I cannot use PCI-E so I'm limited to PCI) graphics card and I'm just not sure if I'll be able to use it on Linux as far as drivers and automatically installing them goes.
1a.) Also, the PCI cards I've found are 256MB and 512MB cards. There are ATI and also NVIDIA graphics available to me... which would you guys recommend?
2.) I've upgraded graphics cards before, on much newer PCs as well, but always used Windows and never Linux. I know that I'll have to use the Dell BIOS on my PC to go in and manually disable the onboard graphics in order to allow the PC to let the new PCI one work, but will that affect Linux at all?
2a.) After I boot into it or can I run a hardware drivers upgrade and have it work? I'm just making sure I do it all the right way.
I know PCI cards aren't great, but I've found some good ones to replace this outdated piece of junk, seeing as how I can't afford a whole new computer. The Intel card I currently have only has 64MB of RAM on it and, let's face it, sucks *** when compared to even slightly newer things.
Here's some specs on the Dell:
Dell Dimension 2400
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz
2GB RAM
Intel 82845G Integrated Graphics Controller
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope