Hi All, As there has been much discussion about video cards lately, I find myself with a question now. It looks like the ATI cards are better supported and more open to Linux right now, so those cards would of course be the best suited to have. I am considering an ATI Expert 2000 Pro card 32mb with, I believe, the Rage128 chip? Does anyone here have or use one of these cards with SuSE? How do they perform, 3d and such with your system & Linux? Easy to setup, good support with SuSE 7.2 & the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for your input and help. end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
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It looks like the ATI cards are better supported and more open to Linux right now, so those cards would of course be the best suite to have. I am considering an ATI Expert 2000 Pro card 32mb with, I believe, the Rage128 chip?
One could say that, one may be wrong, but one could say that. Why are you looking at such an old card? Radeons can be had in the States for under $100, and by all accounts, the Radeon would run circles around the r128 in 2D and 3D contests with the added advantage of having better picture quality. On the other hand, they do not get along seemlessly with VIA or AMD motherboard chipsets in all cases. If you have a Genuine Intel (tm) motherboard, the Radeon would be *the* ATI card to have.
Easy to setup, good support with SuSE 7.2 & the 2.4 kernel?
Again, *the*easiest* is a Voodoo3, which will outperform the r128 in 3D and be very comparable in 2D at 16-bit color, assuming you had the Voodoo3 3000 chip instead of the 2000 or lower. A Matrox G450 would also probably outrun the r128 in 3D and still have better 2D quality...I believe that the G450 is also the fastest 2D performer that's ever been tested on Linux (using the XiG server and x11perf as the benchmarker). What exaclty do you want to do? ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
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wrote: It looks like the ATI cards are better supported and more open to Linux right now, so those cards would of course be the best suite to have. I am considering an ATI Expert 2000 Pro card 32mb with, I believe, the Rage128 chip?
ATI is well supported and the ATI Xpert 2000 Pro 32Mb is a good in-expensive video card for Linux. I have a few of these, but I do currently run an ATI Radeon 64M DDR AGP card I like the best. The Matrox line seems the best overall, they just didn't have any in stock when I needed one. /Dee
Thanks Jon & Dee, This is good info and much appreciated. It is always nice to have some "experts" around to ask these questions. Although I did know the r128 was an older chip, I was curious about it's performance as I presently only have a AMD K6-3 450mhz setup using a VIA chipset, so I was kinda gonna save the Radeon for the next machine! ;-) Thanks again for the heads up though and I hope others here may find it useful also. end of line Tracer ----------------------------- On Monday 15 October 2001 12:19 am, Jon Pennington, babbled about:
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wrote: It looks like the ATI cards are better supported and more open to Linux right now, so those cards would of course be the best suite to have. I am considering an ATI Expert 2000 Pro card 32mb with, I believe, the Rage128 chip?
One could say that, one may be wrong, but one could say that. Why are you looking at such an old card? Radeons can be had in the States for under $100, and by all accounts, the Radeon would run circles around the r128 in 2D and 3D contests with the added advantage of having better picture quality. On the other hand, they do not get along seemlessly with VIA or AMD motherboard chipsets in all cases. If you have a Genuine Intel (tm) motherboard, the Radeon would be *the* ATI card to have.
Easy to setup, good support with SuSE 7.2 & the 2.4 kernel?
Again, *the*easiest* is a Voodoo3, which will outperform the r128 in 3D and be very comparable in 2D at 16-bit color, assuming you had the Voodoo3 3000 chip instead of the 2000 or lower. A Matrox G450 would also probably outrun the r128 in 3D and still have better 2D quality...I believe that the G450 is also the fastest 2D performer that's ever been tested on Linux (using the XiG server and x11perf as the benchmarker). What exaclty do you want to do?
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Thanks Jon & Dee, This is good info and much appreciated. It is always nice to have some "experts" around to ask these questions.
Pretending to be helpful on this list is how I got my last job. :)
Although I did know the r128 was an older chip, I was curious about it's performance as I presently only have a AMD K6-3 450mhz
Speaking from experience, Voodoo3's ROCK with this combination. I'm glancing at a K6-III 450 underneath my monitor at the moment; I haven't had the need to buy a new Socket7 board in some time, but I knew it'd be useful some day.
setup using a VIA chipset, so I was kinda gonna save the Radeon for the next machine! ;-)
Maybe you should. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
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