[LAU] Switching the distro

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 09:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:06 -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> >> 2011/5/29 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> >> > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:04 +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> >> >> If you want to build a lot of stuff yourself, Arch Linux and Gentoo
> >> >> crosses my mind.
> >> >
> >> > Arch Linux might be interesting, I need to read more or just will test
> >> > it. Gentoo, hm? OOTB (is there an 'OOTB'?) without ALSA?
> >> >
> >> >        "nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx removed from [extra]
> >>
> >> What nvidia card do you have?
> >>
> >> Maybe extra/nvidia 270.41.19-1 (the updated one), nouveau or even
> >> nouveau-git would be better for your video card.
> >> If you really need a legacy nvidia driver, then you might have
> >> problems with recent xorg versions. You can manually choose to use an
> >> older version of xorg if you really need.
> >
> > 7200 GS as replacement for the integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based.
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> The 7200GS is supported by the Certified 270-41.19 driver
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-270.41.19-driver.html
> 
> I've been through the other side of this problem when purchasing very
> new cards that aren't supported either. In response I've learned to
> poke around the NVidia website to determine what alpha/beta driver I
> needed to run to get it to work. Here's where I went to find the
> driver that current supports the chipset you mentioned:
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

Yes, it's a very old second-hand card. I don't need current high-speed
cards and all kinds of digital connectors, I just need simple 3D
capability from time to time, it's much more important that the graphics
is passive, than super fast and with two fans ;). Music has got the
highest priority here, it's nice if I could use the same computer for
animation and video, if I like to do that, no FPS, home entertainment,
overclocking etc.. A video composite output might be nice too. Even my
AGP NVIDA from the stone age would be good enough, if it wouldn't come
with a fan and if my current board would have an AGP slot. When I bought
my mobo I thought that I need HDMI etc., but I was mistaken.

-- Ralf