[opensuse] Suggested Video Cards?
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE? I know ATI after a while drops support for cards in their drivers so that is out of the question. What about Nvida? I was looking at GeForce 9500 GT based cards because they are reasonably priced but should I expect decent driver support in Linux for a reasonable amount of time? The card will not be used for playing games but it should support the vendor's drivers, let 3d acceleration work in Linux and work well with Compiz (or whatever the desktop effects are now called.) -- Med Vennlig Hilsen, A. Helge Joakimsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-12-20 at 21:39 -0500, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE? I know ATI after a while drops support for cards in their drivers so that is out of the question. What about Nvida? I was looking at GeForce 9500 GT based cards because they are reasonably priced but should I expect decent driver support in Linux for a reasonable amount of time?
That's what I got for my new computer, MSI make.. Works out of the box. 3D is just activating the nvidia repo and running you (on 11.2 at least). Caveats? With nv driver (open) I can not hibernate, X hangs at 100% one core on restore. With nvidia driver it hibernates fine, provided you switch to text mode first. Of course, YMMV.
The card will not be used for playing games but it should support the vendor's drivers, let 3d acceleration work in Linux and work well with Compiz (or whatever the desktop effects are now called.)
Yes, compiz is activated by default as soon as you load the 3D driver. It scared me you can't imagine how, I thought my new display was broken, horrible small refresh or something, because the windows "wobled". Result: I uninstalled compiz right away. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksu5SoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UmMACffGAZH95oKeTOR0JVYnwzNV8Z KMgAn0DJHfCAPzO3FShYfHVmc9aQ4Pn7 =G81O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE?
nVidia works great. Somehow, some people have issues with them, but they are in my experience, special cases. I've used nVidia on a LOT of Linux installs and they've always just worked (for desktop computers) - especially one I installed the nVidia binary drivers. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:10 +0100, Clayton wrote:
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE?
nVidia works great. Somehow, some people have issues with them, but they are in my experience, special cases. I've used nVidia on a LOT of Linux installs and they've always just worked (for desktop computers) - especially one I installed the nVidia binary drivers.
Like CLayton I go for nvida.. I got the GeForce 8800 GTS as soon they were out and it works great. Before I have the ati Radeon it was a good card with the open drivers and running 2D desktop, it was impossible to have a 3D desktop reliable enough to use for production. Since I got nvdia with the proprietary drivers I can run compiz-fusion without problems. I heard that ati is becoming better but .... Furthermore nvida is upgrading the drivers all the time for all their chips. I think is one of the few companies that supports linux in a major way, you do not see nvdia bringing new windoze drivers and month latter some linux +-. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Any modern NVidia card is good with Linux, I personally try and avoid
ATI cards though bad experiences with them on linux. I also believe
the open source nvidia drivers are coming along nicely.
Dave
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Teruel de Campo MD
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:10 +0100, Clayton wrote:
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE?
nVidia works great. Somehow, some people have issues with them, but they are in my experience, special cases. I've used nVidia on a LOT of Linux installs and they've always just worked (for desktop computers) - especially one I installed the nVidia binary drivers.
Like CLayton I go for nvida.. I got the GeForce 8800 GTS as soon they were out and it works great. Before I have the ati Radeon it was a good card with the open drivers and running 2D desktop, it was impossible to have a 3D desktop reliable enough to use for production. Since I got nvdia with the proprietary drivers I can run compiz-fusion without problems. I heard that ati is becoming better but .... Furthermore nvida is upgrading the drivers all the time for all their chips. I think is one of the few companies that supports linux in a major way, you do not see nvdia bringing new windoze drivers and month latter some linux +-.
-=terry=-
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Nvidia works great, I recommend some with CUDA and VDPAU support :). Chose.
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE?
nVidia works great. Somehow, some people have issues with them, but they are in my experience, special cases. I've used nVidia on a LOT of Linux installs and they've always just worked (for desktop computers) - especially one I installed the nVidia binary drivers.
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Le lundi 21 décembre 2009 03:39:33, Andrew Joakimsen a écrit :
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE? I know ATI after a while drops support for cards in their drivers so that is out of the question. What about Nvida? I was looking at GeForce 9500 GT based cards because they are reasonably priced but should I expect decent driver support in Linux for a reasonable amount of time?
The card will not be used for playing games but it should support the vendor's drivers, let 3d acceleration work in Linux and work well with Compiz (or whatever the desktop effects are now called.)
As all the other has told you, go for a Nvidia card. I never had any problem with their drivers. I used Geforce 4 MX400, Geforce Ti4200, Quadro FX, 7600GT and 7300 Go (laptop card) with SuSE 7.2, 8.2, 9.1, 9.3 and opensuse 10.1, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 and now 11.2. Nowadays, once you have added the nvidia repo, the driver is downloaded and installed, and you don't even have to bother when upgrading the kernel. With ATi it is another story...back to 2000, I bought a refurbished laptop with an ATI Rage 128 Pro card... it took me 2 years to be able to activate the 3D under linux. Following the problems with ATI drivers (stability, installation nightmares...) I decided to never buy an ATI card. And now it makes even more sense with thei habit to drop support for not so old hardware. No questions... go for Nivdia you won't be disapointed. As for the model, well depends on your needs and money...even with cards as old as the 7300GT (and even older but I don't have them anymore), the eye candy effects and 3D accelaration works perfectly...and the support is still good. (In fact my mother in law computer runs an old Geforce 4 MX400 and the legacy driver works fine under opensuse 11.1). So if you won't play game there is no need to take something too fancy. Matthias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:47:57 pm Matthias Titeux wrote:
even with cards as old as the 7300GT (and even older but I don't have them anymore), the eye candy effects and 3D accelaration works perfectly.
Indeed, my onboard 6100 works beautifully with full compositing and 3D support. -- Lindsay http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE?
all these people recommending Nvidia, let me expand some: here is my simple list of what _not_ to buy: -ATI -Intel -VIA -S3 -Matrox -SiS -PowerVR -anything else you find without Nvidia on the box, label, card itself.. DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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