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Re: [SLE] Nvidia cards
- From: Tracer Bullet <tracerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:48:10 -0400
- Message-id: <200110021601.JAA10636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I too have experienced the joy of Nvidia cards, which I presently have
in my system (Vanta TNT2). The card works very nicely for the most
part and I have had no serious problems with it, but I wish I had known
before hand, which cards worked better and were supported better with
Linux before purchasing. Since Nvidia has gone to bed with Microsoft,
I am surprised that Linux gets any drivers at all. They build their
boards and chips to Microsoft's specs, so support for other OS's will
never be strong, unless we speak to them with our purchasing dollars.
I am still trying to figure out why the last two driver updates will
not work on my system! I have worked on the problem for a week, with
the help of many users on this list and SuSE support also. Maybe I
will figure out the problem before I replace the card, maybe not, but
at this point I would only recommend folks getting Linux supported
video cards.
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 01:02 am, J.Drews, babbled about:
> Well I switched from my Diamond Viper 770D (nVIDIA TNT2) to a 64 Mb
> ATI Radeon card. This is 3D card. I decided to do that after reading
> on ATI's web site that they make the details of their cards available
> to XFree86.org. I am sure there are other good card manufacturers
> too.
>
> I posted those comments to warn newbies, who are sure to come as
> Linux becomes easier to install and KDE and GNOME mature. (FYI GNOME
> Abiword 9.4 was released tonight; it has enhanced features that allow
> reading M$ docs.) Basically SuSE has so many applications to learn
> that it's shame to expend hours agonizing over inscrutible software
> crashes. So what if ATI's Radeon is 300 fps slower. It just flat
> works. No antialiasing corruptions, no surprises with software
> packages. Mind you, I am not trying to start a holy war about video
> cards. However it must be born in mind that to post glowing accounts
> about nVIDIA is an advertisement for newbies to pickup a computer
> equipped with one. When they install Linux on it, they are in for a
> nasty surprise.
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in my system (Vanta TNT2). The card works very nicely for the most
part and I have had no serious problems with it, but I wish I had known
before hand, which cards worked better and were supported better with
Linux before purchasing. Since Nvidia has gone to bed with Microsoft,
I am surprised that Linux gets any drivers at all. They build their
boards and chips to Microsoft's specs, so support for other OS's will
never be strong, unless we speak to them with our purchasing dollars.
I am still trying to figure out why the last two driver updates will
not work on my system! I have worked on the problem for a week, with
the help of many users on this list and SuSE support also. Maybe I
will figure out the problem before I replace the card, maybe not, but
at this point I would only recommend folks getting Linux supported
video cards.
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 01:02 am, J.Drews, babbled about:
> Well I switched from my Diamond Viper 770D (nVIDIA TNT2) to a 64 Mb
> ATI Radeon card. This is 3D card. I decided to do that after reading
> on ATI's web site that they make the details of their cards available
> to XFree86.org. I am sure there are other good card manufacturers
> too.
>
> I posted those comments to warn newbies, who are sure to come as
> Linux becomes easier to install and KDE and GNOME mature. (FYI GNOME
> Abiword 9.4 was released tonight; it has enhanced features that allow
> reading M$ docs.) Basically SuSE has so many applications to learn
> that it's shame to expend hours agonizing over inscrutible software
> crashes. So what if ATI's Radeon is 300 fps slower. It just flat
> works. No antialiasing corruptions, no surprises with software
> packages. Mind you, I am not trying to start a holy war about video
> cards. However it must be born in mind that to post glowing accounts
> about nVIDIA is an advertisement for newbies to pickup a computer
> equipped with one. When they install Linux on it, they are in for a
> nasty surprise.
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*Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
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