Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2333 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 July 2008 01:29, William Hammond wrote:
> I'm going to put together a box for someone who basically just plays
> simple games (Solitaire) and goes on line.

If 3D is not important, just about any card will do and questions about 
proprietary driver's are then moot and you need only the built-in, 
open-source video driver for whatever card you choose.


> I thought OpenSuSE might be a good choice for her.
>
> I see a lot of threads about Nvidia, and my personal experience with
> OpenSuSE Graphics has be less than stellar. Often the screens are
> virtually unreadable even after setting font size, and of course
> downloading TT, but I probably don't really know how to properly
> configure a desktop. 

Assuming you pick a DVI-capable card and, of course, a DVI-connected LCD 
monitor, you can get excellent font rendering even when we take into 
account the large degree of taste involved in that evaluation. You may, 
however, need to spend quite a bit time experimenting with choice of 
fonts, sizes, colors, and rendering options. Depending on how and for 
what you (or your friend) use the system, you may need to perform many 
individual font configurations.

By the way, I have never known a system, be it Linux, Mac or Windows, 
for which this was not the case.


> but, I digress, the question is: Is there a preferred video chip set 
> or a particular series of Video Card that has better support for
> OpenSuSE out of the Box...? 

I think you'll get somewhat more recommendations for NVidia than for 
ATI, but as I say, that's only germane if 3D applications are in your 
repertoire.


Randall Schulz
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