[plug] Changing hardware on desktop

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Aug 1 13:01:08 WST 2002


> Dunno, but XFree86 4.2.0 absolutely flies on the GeForce2 cards going for 
> about $80 (MESA gears at circa 800FPS on a Celery 566). In many cases you 
> need to append apm=no to the boot kernel to get stability.

Otherwise you get crashes, especially if you enable DHCP in XFree86. 
*sigh*. And this is on an athlon4 1.5gig ("1800+") with a GF4 MX 4400 so 
the problem goes right up to their newer cards.

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