On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:37:17PM -0500, Bob Fischer wrote:
Aack!
I haven't (yet) tried to install my NVidia 3-D drivers. They at least claim to have made installation "painless" --- but I'll have to wait and see on that one.
It's fairly OK, just a few menus to go through. Doing it after every kernel update, though, is what makes in painful.
Do ANY graphics card vendors offer painless 3-D support that doesn't require you to recompile the kernel? AFAIK, if you want to use your 3-D accelerator, your only choice these days is to recompile your kernel. I don't think that any graphics vendor has supplied open drivers that can be included with a standard Linux distro.
Radeon 9200 works out of the box with open source drivers, 3D accelerated. It's not top-of-the-pack card, though. Radeon 9200SE needs XFree86 4.4, though, so be careful.
In my experience, Radeon cards barely work without their special driver. I mean, I don't get 1280x1024 with 24-bit color. My nVidia card at least gives me that functionality out of the box.
At least my Radeon 7500's and Mobility M6 both work fine in high-res and truecolor. Btw, talking about cards that work on AMD64, does anybody know of a decent card (preferably quiet, fanless) that'd do dualhead? Matroxes don't work, as they need the HAL library, which is binary only and 32-bit. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR