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video cards

Asked by kenyon C

hello,
i volunteered at free geek to get a free computer.but when i got a game and tried to play it and it runs on steam and it says could not find your video card then when i move on the screen goes black the it comes back to my page and says(this game requires texture compression it must have been disabled on your system) and every thing is gigantic.the mouse the icons.what do i need to do .do i have to buy a video card or something like that???

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Either you have an older video card that doesn't support the game or something else, could you post whatever display when you issue the terminal command below:

lspci | grep VGA

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kenyon C (ladysman29234) said : 		#2

it says

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#3

I am using the same video card. It does not function fully with Jaunty. I have been waiting for a fix from the updates, but so far nothing. Maybe there will be no fix. There does not appear to be any urgency to do it. This site explains things and proposes a workaround that might work: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582. I haven't tried it. If you do, please let me know how it goes.

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