HI. I'm on a computer with a SiS740 Northbridge and SiS962L Southbridge, an embedded AGP graphics accelerator. Since SiS sucks with graphics under Linux, I'd like to know if it's possible for me to stick another graphics card onto the computer, and if so will it work.

Though this computer doesn't come with a regular slot for a graphics card to go into, it does have a couple PCI slots for PCI 2.2-compliant bus interface. So my question is, is it possible for me to stick a standard PCI video card in there and have it work under Linux?

Sure, pretty much any PCI graphics will work under Linux. Extra bells + whistles like 3d accelaration usually take a bit more effort, however both nVidia + ATI drivers are available for linux. Check out the HCL on this website for an overview of graphics cards other people have used and got working, but almost any PCI card will get you up + running.

Okay cool, thanks. So does it just bypass the embedded video card then?

Usually, your BIOS will understand you have an additional graphics card and use that automatically. With some older BIOS', there is an option to select to boot from onboard or AGP/PCI card. You would find that plugging your monitor into the onboard card would no longer display anything it's disabled at a hardware level, leaving you free to configure + use your shiny new card!

Fantastic. Thank you