Le lundi 21 décembre 2009 03:39:33, Andrew Joakimsen a écrit :
Can someone recommend what is a good video card to use for openSUSE? I know ATI after a while drops support for cards in their drivers so that is out of the question. What about Nvida? I was looking at GeForce 9500 GT based cards because they are reasonably priced but should I expect decent driver support in Linux for a reasonable amount of time?
The card will not be used for playing games but it should support the vendor's drivers, let 3d acceleration work in Linux and work well with Compiz (or whatever the desktop effects are now called.)
As all the other has told you, go for a Nvidia card. I never had any problem with their drivers. I used Geforce 4 MX400, Geforce Ti4200, Quadro FX, 7600GT and 7300 Go (laptop card) with SuSE 7.2, 8.2, 9.1, 9.3 and opensuse 10.1, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 and now 11.2. Nowadays, once you have added the nvidia repo, the driver is downloaded and installed, and you don't even have to bother when upgrading the kernel. With ATi it is another story...back to 2000, I bought a refurbished laptop with an ATI Rage 128 Pro card... it took me 2 years to be able to activate the 3D under linux. Following the problems with ATI drivers (stability, installation nightmares...) I decided to never buy an ATI card. And now it makes even more sense with thei habit to drop support for not so old hardware. No questions... go for Nivdia you won't be disapointed. As for the model, well depends on your needs and money...even with cards as old as the 7300GT (and even older but I don't have them anymore), the eye candy effects and 3D accelaration works perfectly...and the support is still good. (In fact my mother in law computer runs an old Geforce 4 MX400 and the legacy driver works fine under opensuse 11.1). So if you won't play game there is no need to take something too fancy. Matthias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org