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The ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT that came standard in the 2008 Mac Pro was a good looking card. I mean, chrome flames?! But unfortunately in this case, mine died: I primarily used this card only to access the Mac boot screen to switch between MacOS and Windows 10, as my other card, an Nvidia …
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I have an old HP desktop with onboard nvidia 6150 graphics, and I’ve posted before about installing the legacy 304 drivers, and installing latest nvidia drivers to support an nvidia 750ti. I recently moved the 750ti card into my 2008 Mac Pro, so now when booting the HP desktop into Debian with the latest nvidia …
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I’ve posted a few times about installing the nvidia-304 legacy drivers on Linux Mint, which I’ve been using on an HP desktop which has nvidia 6150 graphics on the motherboard. I just upgraded to a shiny new geforce 750ti card which runs in this same HP, powered through the PCI-E slot so and doesn’t need …
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I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon 17.1 as my main desktop OS, of all the Linux distros I’ve played with in the past couple of years, this is my favorite by far (in terms of simplicity of the Desktop Environment). 17.3 Rosa came out recently, so I hadn’t upgraded for a while, so updated via the …
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