On Monday 20 December 2004 1:44 pm, Steve Kratz wrote:
I have also been scared by what seem to be lots of problems posting to this list about getting nVidia cards to work. Is that all old hat now, with dirivers working and easily available/installable and hunky-dory? Generally, my needs are commonplace usage, some graphics and photo work, mostly light duty, some gaming (Quake when I can get it to run, as I have not recently). Thanks for suggestions. Please don't let me be the instigator of a big flame war; I just want to know what people think of the "other" cards and what might be similar to ATI maybe 9200, 9600, like that.
Well, I'm not running SuSE on an Nvidia card (yet-- new laptop SHOULD be here this week... Providing Fedex doesn't do anything else stupid, like shipping the package back to the sender like they did today!) but the main thing seems to be that after any upgrade/reinstall of the Kernel, you have to reload video drivers.
Nvidia has probably provided the best "manufacturer" video card support for Linux over anyone else out there.
Thanks. Last para is probably what I really wanted to hear. Other than the ATI cards I have really tried to look for hardware supported under linux and specifically for manufacturers that offer drivers, support. Time to move it seems. Any suggestions on making sense of the alphabet/number soup of the cards? GeForce 6800 seems to be the latest, but driver on Nvidia site shows support for 6600 included in most recent release. Does that make the 6600 a better bet right now? Richard