A. First off, you shouldn't need a GUI on a webserver anyway. If you need any X applications, just forward X from your desktop (ssh -X webserver). B. Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 was a pain for me, too. It went smoothly on exactly zero of my machines, to the point where I just reinstalled a few from scratch and just reinstalled everything and copied the configurations over. My own webserver went that way. C. I believe most these cards are PCI-X 16: http://pics.freakzilla.com/videocards.jpg If you want to comeup to Shoreview and get one, let me know. On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Dan Armbrust wrote: > 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 >
