Used video card needed

[jbander]

Thats pretty much it, I would like to know were a good place to go to
find a used video card that with work with multiple linux programs ,I
would like it plug and play. Tight budget. I have a old emachine
t3104. I've tried three so fare with little success, still freezes. I
run Ubuntu 11.04

[Christopher Miller]

Used: try ebay.

You can still get a decent new video card from somewhere like newegg.com for a decent price.

If the machine is freezing after three video cards, then it's probably something unrelated to the video card.

Also, Linux video card drivers tend to suck badly. Trying every card in existance might not be as effective as simply obtaining a new machine with some kind of Intel Integrated graphics. The Intel graphics suck (read: are über slow), but the drivers themselves rock and rarely crash on me.

[bigbluealien]

Looking at the specs of the t3104 I'm thinking your problem is more
that it simply can't handle 11.04 in any way, I'm assuming you're
attempting to use unity, when logging in changed the session type to
ubuntu classic and see if it works any better. There's no point
wasting money on more graphics cards until you know that is definitely
the problem. If you do need to upgrade hardware I would suggest adding
1gig of ram too, it only supports DDR so should be very cheap now

[Neil]

Compatibility list:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/120
and a list of lists:
http://www.linux-drivers.org/

I agree with Chris: you probably haven't frozen three video cards, unless they all use the same driver, and its' buggy. Cheap might work in your favor, there, as the older more basic cards should work better. I've never had issues with basic SVGA cards, for example.

Along with what Chris said, there are brick-and-mortar shops in many places that recycle computers, and would probably sell off older, lesser video cards pretty cheap. Also, a lot of smaller retailers (and possibly larger ones) will be sitting on old stock that never sold and couldn't be returned.

I *am* however, personally very happy with the NVidia proprietary drivers. They share 90% of the code across their windows/mac/linux drivers, and the driver feels very complete. They've also been contributing linux drivers for a long time.

[Matthew Dey]

Nvidia has the best proprietary driver.  Ati's proprietary driver can be good sometimes just need to take a minute and research what you're buying.  It would be nice to know more about what cards you have tried.  At any rate the problem you're going to run into though is that your computer's motherboard has an AGP slot (assuming you haven't replaced the motherboard).  This is going to limit your choices down to cards that are either
A: old legacy chipsets that require legacy versions of the drivers
B: newer standard PCI slot cards that cost more simply because they use the old PCI slot instead of the newer PCI Express.

If your heart is set on buying a new graphics card with decent horsepower you might try
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125281

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143069

On the same website they have old geforce 6200 cards for a cheap price new that will work good enough on your computer assuming you're not looking at doing hd video or 3d games.  I'd also recommend that you research on what kind of power supply wattage any cards you intend to buy require before you buy anything.  For example the power supply might not be putting out enough power to run the card you want in it and you'll need a new power supply that can handle the power demand.

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[jbander]

I went into the nvidia xserver settings and under x server
information
and under nvidia driver version it says 270.41.06. You know I'm
beginning to think that it might be my computer and not the driver,
I've
tried 3 different ones And three different video cards, a via that
was
onboard a old matrox 906-01 rev and now I have a old nvidia geforce
6600
gt and if the Nvidia xserver is right the 270.41.06 is the one I
wanted
in there. So hell I don't know. The only thing I upgraded on my
Emachine
t3104 was I added anouther half gig of memory which makes it 3/4 of a
gig total.

On Sep 21, 9:01 pm, Matthew Dey <deyoneandah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nvidia has the best proprietary driver.  Ati's proprietary driver can be
> good sometimes just need to take a minute and research what you're buying.
> It would be nice to know more about what cards you have tried.  At any rate
> the problem you're going to run into though is that your computer's
> motherboard has an AGP slot (assuming you haven't replaced the
> motherboard).  This is going to limit your choices down to cards that are
> either
> A: old legacy chipsets that require legacy versions of the drivers
> B: newer standard PCI slot cards that cost more simply because they use the
> old PCI slot instead of the newer PCI Express.
>
> If your heart is set on buying a new graphics card with decent horsepower

> you might tryhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125281

>
> or
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143069
>
> On the same website they have old geforce 6200 cards for a cheap price new
> that will work good enough on your computer assuming you're not looking at
> doing hd video or 3d games.  I'd also recommend that you research on what
> kind of power supply wattage any cards you intend to buy require before you
> buy anything.  For example the power supply might not be putting out enough
> power to run the card you want in it and you'll need a new power supply that
> can handle the power demand.
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Christopher Miller <
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:48 PM, jbander wrote:
>
> > > Thats pretty much it, I would like to know were a good place to go to
> > > find a used video card that with work with multiple linux programs ,I
> > > would like it plug and play. Tight budget. I have a old emachine
> > > t3104. I've tried three so fare with little success, still freezes. I
> > > run Ubuntu 11.04
>
> > Used: try ebay.
>

> > You can still get a decent new video card from somewhere like newegg.comfor a decent price.