Even AGP works fine with GPU on 14.04.<-- Mint or Ubuntu.. - Pull up an ' lspci ' in terminal. Usually with upgrading on an LTS now means --- nothing new is gonna happen for about 4 years. What OS are you running with the 'support'.? Thank you, > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:28:49 -0600 > From: daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [tclug-list] Want an old video card out of your closet? > > After doing an upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (don't do that*) I find the need for a newer > video card than the _really_ old PCI card I have in the computer running a webserver. > Hardly ever use it for GUI... but its unusable for GUI now. > > Anything PCI Express x16 from the last decade would probably work... even PCI Express x1 > or plain old PCI, if it is newer than what I have. > > > * "Upgrading" to 14.04 was terrible - worst upgrade I've ever had on an Ubuntu platform. > They broke everything. Randomly uninstalled packages like mysql and random apache > extensions. And then everything else that depended on MySQL. Broke MySql with their > upstart mess, even after reinstalling it. Broke Apache, by not migrating config files. > Erased my existing config files, without asking me, when moving to their new config file > format. > > And to top it all off, the XServer now just segfaults when I try to log on, and I can't > use any of the TTY terminals, as they are a garbled mess. Don't care to deal with it... a > different video card will likely sort it out. > > Sigh. "Progress". > > This kind of stuff was why I stopped running redhat long ago.. because Ubuntu was so much > better at handling things... for a while. Who is good at it now? > > Thanks, > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141103/394b5d15/attachment.html>