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accguy9009

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Again this is coming from someone with limited experience with Ubuntu but I would think that X1650 card would work nicely with another distro. I have had issues in the past with different versions of Ubuntu getting older hardware to work. I had very good luck getting the same outdated hardware to work nicely on Mandriva. I never was able to get my trusty old NETGEAR WG111v2 USB wireless adapter to work on previous versions of Ubuntu. I did get it working nicely on Mandriva using the ndis wrapper. For a lot of older hardware IMHO anyway you most likely need to use a different distro. Fortunately their are many nice options you can try. I would love to hear if that X1650
worked on Mandriva for example.
 

AnonymouseUser

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Again this is coming from someone with limited experience with Ubuntu but I would think that X1650 card would work nicely with another distro. I have had issues in the past with different versions of Ubuntu getting older hardware to work. I had very good luck getting the same outdated hardware to work nicely on Mandriva. I never was able to get my trusty old NETGEAR WG111v2 USB wireless adapter to work on previous versions of Ubuntu. I did get it working nicely on Mandriva using the ndis wrapper. For a lot of older hardware IMHO anyway you most likely need to use a different distro. Fortunately their are many nice options you can try. I would love to hear if that X1650
worked on Mandriva for example.

You've got a point. I can't get my onboard audio (ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)) working with Ubuntu since 8.04, yet it works with all other non-Ubuntu distros with zero problems.
 

todpod

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Ordered the new video card we will see if we just plug it in and it works, hopefully
 

todpod

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Yeah it worked, Plugged it in installed the drivers and it just works, Thanks for the help.