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| (...) Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on Usenet as well. :-( This particular machine is an IBM 300PL. But can you just (safely) plop another video card into a machine like this with an onboard integrated video system?? If so, then, heck, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You need to find the docs to turn off the onboard video, but yeah, it should be eminently possible. (...) Does it have AGP? I'm partial to Matrox, especially since they started working with the open-source community to procide drivers instead (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FM8xJr.CyL@lugnet.com... (...) S3 (...) put (...) I (...) It just automagically disables the on-board video. So it's real easy to do that. Tom (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I use Matrox G200 with X windows, and it works just fine. Dunno about G400, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Oh, BTW, that worked great -- thanks for the help. I put in an ATI XPERT98 card (8MB, PCI, 3D Rage Pro chipset) and it FLIES, even at 1600x1200x16bit. Very happy! --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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