Well, I have seen a lot of bantering on this subject, so I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I have 7 computers, of which 5 have NVidia cards (ranging from TNT2 M64 to GeForce 2 MX.) The only problem I have had, was with one machine that used to lock up (completely hang, no keyboard, no network... required a power off/on to get it back.) This problem was corrected by replacing a cheaply mfr'd TNT2 card from Aztech. I dropped an ELSA card in it's place and never had another issue. I use XMMS, AA and TrueType fonts, I do CD ripping and burning, play Q3 and all work beautifully. I am runnig the latest "SuSE released" kernel and the latest NV drivers - all of which were simply installed via RPM. True, NV is in bed with MS, and I may rethink my next purchase of a graphics card (possibly moving to ATI or Matrox) but until then, I am quite happy with what I have. - Herman On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Tracer Bullet wrote: ->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. -> ->end of line ->Tracer ->------------------------------- ->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. -> ->