Aaaargh! On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:26 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
Wouldn't recommend. Get a 6200, in the future you'll need fragment programs, even for 2D (video acceleration). The NV2x (GeForce 4xxx) don't have fragment programs at all, the performance of NV3x (GeForce 5xxx) is *much* lower than that of NV4x.
Do not buy a 6200 TurboCache. Repeat: Do *not* buy a 6200 TurboCache. That said, I think there is no 6200TC (TurboCache) for AGP.
Prices have probably changed a lot from this review, but I think the guy's findings will hold up. Good info and I think should be considered before making a purchase.
Except for that 6200 is available for AGP now.
I've been reading this exchange with interest, because I wanted to replace my onboard graphics. So I bought a 6200 (XFX GEFORCE 6200 AGP 8X 256MB DDR2 - a.k.a. GF 6200 256MB DDR2 TV DVI VerF.4). Yesterday, I plugged it in. My motherboard (MSI K8M Neo-V) evidently noticed, because there was no video on the motherboard connector and there was video on the graphics card VGA connector. It all worked. There don't seem to be any BIOS settings I need to or can change. So I switched off, smiled and went to bed. Today, I thought I'd upgrade the video driver, which is exceptionally easy with SUSE, yes? I switched on, it noticed new hardware, asked me to confirm the nv driver, I said OK, everything still fine. So then I go into YOU and ask for the nvidia driver. It downloads and everything is fine up until it tries to use it! Then the screen goes dark. Not black but a dark marbled pattern through which text is just about visible. The screen is also obviously low-res. So I switch to a terminal (CTRL-ALT-1) and the screen is darker: unusable. I reboot and select 'failsafe'. Hah! It says: ... PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Via IRQ fixup and hangs! So much for failsafe. I reboot and let it default to normal. The boot sequence looks just like it always does until it starts X. Then it goes dark swirling patterns again. This time I can see the prompt in CTRL-ALT-1. I copy the original (non-nvidia, non-nv) xorg.conf back - lucky I saved it?! I reboot again. And here I am. The colours and brightness are normal. It's running in my normal 1280x1024 BUT what's visible on screen is not the whole desktop. What's visible appears to be 1150x1000. Has anybody seen this or have any idea what's wrong? It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem because the boot sequence works. It's at times like this that I despair of Linux, Dave