[plug] Preferred or recommended graphics adapter

[Jim Householder]

Arie Hol wrote:
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> On 16 Dec 2004 at 12:34, Cameron Patrick wrote:
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>>If you're not fussed about getting a tweaky gamer card, cards in the
>>Radeon 9200 series have excellent Linux support.  3D acceleration is
>>supported by Free drivers included with the kernel and should be part
>>of most recent distributions.  The cards are cheap ($50-$100) and
>>passively cooled so no noisy fans to worry about.
> 
> 
> I recently purchased a 128Mb Sapphire Radeon 9200SE from Austin for $65 no problems, it appears to 
> be an excellent card. 
> 
> 
How did you get it to work?  What distro are you using?

I just got one and am having no luck.  I use vga=780 in lilo.conf which happily gave me 132x60 text with the nvidia card, but my radeon will only give me 80x25.

With X I'm only able to get 800x600.
Is a special driver needed?

TIA
Jim