video card

Saturday, July 03, 1999, at 07:19AM

By Eric Richardson

I got a new video card yesterday. I'm finally off my piece of trash Virge card. Whew. Anyway, the new card is a Diamond Viper V550 (16meg, RIVA TNT chipset). It wasn't even that hard to get working in X (with the X server from Nvidia. they rock). Now I've got glx in my X server... One more milestone on the way to world domination.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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