Hi All, I'm planning on doing a fresh install of 7.3. Before I do, I want to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards: ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400 I'm not a hard core gamer, and I don't _really_ need dual monitor support (although I wouldn't mind it), so blazing 3D performance and dual monitor capability are not critical issues for me, but I would really like a clean install. As far as I can tell from the equipment database, archives, and web searching, these cards should be well supported. Any comments pro or con on any of these cards, or graphics card choices with 7.3 in general, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks and Happy Holidays, Malcolm
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 21:48, M. Clark wrote:
Hi All,
I'm planning on doing a fresh install of 7.3. Before I do, I want to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400 (.....)
Hi Malcolm,
As far as I remember, the GeForce2-MX-card is containing a NVidia Chip
and therefore should run properly.
There have been some issues with the Matrox lately, and there was some
info on linuxplanet, which I can't recall exactly, since I didn't really
follow this. I have a Diamond Viper V770 or so which always worked so I
never really bothered with this.
I recently asked for a GeForce on this list, since there is a cheap
offer from a retailer in my (.de) country who offers the Pixel View
GeForce2 MX200 32MB TV-OUT in a less-than-500-bucks-box.
Below I am quoting some answers I received then.
Hope that helps .. Cheers ...
Wolfi
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Hi,
I was (....)
I have a GeForce2 MX200 32 MB with Athlon 1600, Ram 512 and it works OK
with SuSE 7.2 (no Pixel View, what is it though)
Alain
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These guys offer their boxes with a Pixel View GeForce2 MX200 32MB TV-OUT video card. I'm wondering if someone knows about this card,
Should work just fine. Uses the nVidia kernel/OpenGL drivers, buyer beware. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Friday 28 December 2001 03:48 pm, M. Clark, went on about:
Hi All,
I'm planning on doing a fresh install of 7.3. Before I do, I want to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400
Any comments pro or con on any of these cards, or graphics card choices with 7.3 in general, will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Happy Holidays,
Malcolm
Malcolm, My vote is for the ATI Radeon 7200 card. I went thru the Nvidia challenge and didn't have much luck. Too many quirks to suit my tastes, although there are some here that have had very good setups with them, I am not one of those as many others that lurk here. The ATI is better supported thru open source and my new Radeon 7200 gives me very good performance in every aspect. I had the ATI Xpert Pro 2000 with the Rage 128 chipset before and the Radeon performance has more than doubled from that card. I had a TNT2 Vanta Nvidia as my first card and the performance was very good, as long as the Nvidia supplied drivers worked and at one point they just quit working. Still don't know why that happened, just give up and got the ATI and have been happy since. Your mileage may vary. :-) Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 21:18, Patrick wrote:
to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400
Any comments pro or con on any of these cards, or graphics card choices with 7.3 in general, will be greatly appreciated.
Malcolm, My vote is for the ATI Radeon 7200 card. I went thru the Nvidia challenge and didn't have much luck. Too many quirks to suit my tastes, although there are some here that have had very good setups with them, I am not one of those as many others that lurk here. The ATI is better supported thru open source and my new Radeon 7200 gives me very good performance in every aspect. I had the ATI Xpert Pro 2000 with the Rage 128 chipset before and the Radeon performance has more than doubled from that card. I had a TNT2 Vanta Nvidia as my first card and the performance was very good, as long as the Nvidia supplied drivers worked and at one point they just quit working. Still don't know why that happened, just give up and got the ATI and have been happy since. Your mileage may vary. :-)
Dang. Wish I had known this before purchasing a GForce 2 MX400 (NVidia). Still haven't gotten it to work with open GL and the performance isn't any better than the Matrox G450 I replaced. The FAQ keeps telling me something about reworking the kernal...which I haven't time for...
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 14:48, M. Clark wrote:
to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
Matrox G450
If you're not a gamer, the G450 is the only way I'd go. It's supported 100% out-of-the-box, has hardware acceleration features the others don't have for things like mplayer (just nice to have around), and that second head just might be the most useful feature ever on a single card. Pop in a DVD, use mplayer to draw it to the second frame buffer, and keep on hacking! :) The Radeon would be my second choice, but I smoke a lot of crack and never play games. :) -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 13:48, M. Clark wrote:
Hi All,
I'm planning on doing a fresh install of 7.3. Before I do, I want to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400
I'm not a hard core gamer, and I don't _really_ need dual monitor support (although I wouldn't mind it), so blazing 3D performance and dual monitor capability are not critical issues for me, but I would really like a clean install. As far as I can tell from the equipment database, archives, and web searching, these cards should be well supported.
Any comments pro or con on any of these cards, or graphics card choices with 7.3 in general, will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Happy Holidays,
Malcolm
Just to confuse your question slightly. I recently went to the local computer shop to purchase another Matrox G450 card and ended up purchasing a Matrox G550. The G550 cost Cdn$10 more than the the G450, but the G550 has connections for a digital monitor (flatscreen) or an analog monitor. If there is any chance that you might upgrade your monitor during the life of your video card you may want to consider the G550. Apparently the Matrox G400 video card has a problem with SuSE 7.3, I have not noticed a problem with SuSE 7.3 using the Matrox G200, G450 or G550 video cards. No experience with the other 2 cards you are interested in. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01
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