Re: [Nolug] Looking to borrow a Fedora-compatible video card

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:18:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <1582.137.30.185.0.1119557927.squirrel@secure.weblizards.net>

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>
>> Two questions....
>> Is there a specific reason to go with FC2 when FC4 is out?
>
> I'm not sure. I'm not too familiar with Linux (I'm mostly a FreeBSD
> person), but I'm building a RAID server using a RAIDCore controller
> card, which is natively supported in RC2 (according to a friend who
> has built a similar machine). I assume it's still supported in RC4,
> but I guess I was just going with RC2 since that friend has it and
> thus might be able to help me better (as he's offered to do) if we
> have the same thing.

That makes sense.
Then it should be supported in FC4 as well. If I remember correctly, both
cores use 2.6 kernels.

>> Please tell me what video card is not supported?
>> I have not encountered unsupported video cards for years (unless brand
>> spanking new). If I would have had time to come to junk swapping
>> meeting,
>> I would have had some ancient videocards to throw away.
>
> The card I have is a Paradise PVGA1A-JK (circa 1988).

Gee! No wonder it's not supported. I haven't heard that name for about 15
years. They must have removed the support for tons of ancient video cards.
Then on the other hand, in simple VGA mode it should stil work. If I
remember corrctly this card is using ISA bus instead if PCI.

Hmm.... now when thinkin about, FC install gui defaults to 800x600 SVGA
resolution. So no support for VGA in install, except in text mode.

Petri

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