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07-07-2006, 07:58 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, USA
Distribution: Slackware, OpenSuse, Arch Linux on Pi
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Picking a new video card
I have 2 questions:
1. Does a fuzzy display while playing dvd's mean I need a new video card?
2. If so what video card under $100 works well with Mandriva 2006? Anybody have luck with EVGA - NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 Graphics Card
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07-07-2006, 08:49 AM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Statesboro, GA
Distribution: Arch Linux 2007.05 "Duke" (Kernel 2.6.21)
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Just about any NVIDIA card works great in linux. I have a GeForce 4 MMX and a GeForce GO or something and both are great.
Sorry but I'm not sure about the DVD question - but my guess would be that the problem is because of A) your X server or B) Your DVD player. ( I could be wrong)
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07-07-2006, 09:29 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, USA
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I used xine and kaffeine with the same results on KDE.
I get the same thing is Windows XP.
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07-07-2006, 05:01 PM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Statesboro, GA
Distribution: Arch Linux 2007.05 "Duke" (Kernel 2.6.21)
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Then it probably is a hardware problem, but it may lie in your DVD player, and not your video card.
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07-10-2006, 09:54 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, USA
Distribution: Slackware, OpenSuse, Arch Linux on Pi
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Got another monitor, which helped a lot.
Bought an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200, installed great thanks to Mandriva 2006.  |
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