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Display hookup question?
I have this weird moniter that takes 20 pin DFP. It is made by gateway. The graphics card I currently have has the port on there. The sad thing is its a 16 year old computer and I want to put a new linux distro on it. As much as I love that graphics card it will not work with linux. I have a VGA one but I need to convert it to thus DFP. Help finding Adapters? All I can find is DVI. In the link below is of all display adapters.
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- mr. cLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
flash back...
minimum requirements depending on honesty of distro starts w/ 512Mb of RAM and a 400MHz processor (that's a Pentium II at its highest clock speeds (400 to 450 MHz) or better Pent III
512Mb was pretty much the top those CPUs supported, thus unless the memory was maxed out back then, a memory upgrade would be rather difficult (try ebay?)
even so, 512Mb is honestly too little for a graphical interface - both KDE and Gnome have become resource hogs & won't run (properly) on such a config (450MHz / 512Mb RAM)
honest requirements start with a Pentium 4 (starting at 1300MHz) and AT LEAST 1Gb of memory.
most likely your experience w/ Linux on that computer would be VERY frustrating (mostly because of the limited memory)
=> no matter what adapter you are looking for, it is most likely NOT worth the effort
finally it is very unlikely that you can still find a DRIVER for your graphic card which means even more frustrating graphical performance.
Source(s): experience (been running Linux on my own built computers since 1999) http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware_requirements https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Sys... (see * list under Ubuntu Desktop Edition) http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html... all of which are beyond your computer's specs
