On Saturday 14 May 2005 08:52, Allen wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:42:15PM -0700, John Bailo wrote:
After suffering for months with an ATI 9200 with Suse 9.2, based on recommendations, I went and got a GeForce 5200.
There's no comparison!
The GeForce cost $20 less, and is 100 times better!
The driver ( once I understood how to install it ) performs flawlessly.
I could have told you that ;) I buy nothing but Nvidia. Even my laptop has an Nvidia GeForce FX GO 5200.
On the other hand, my machine at work is a DELL Optiplex GX280 with an nVidia Quadro 1300, and when I installed SuSE 9.2 I could not get it to recognize/use the dual-monitor capability. So, I end up booted into WinXP all the time, because I just can't take the time at the office to figure out how to make it all work. They pay me for other things. The nVidia is not a new model, so it's not like I was using bleeding edge hardware. At home, on this machine, I run SuSE 9.2 only (until my 9.3 Upgrade arrives...). I've got some old ATI card in here, and recent releases of SuSE have actually been able to recognize it and even make use of hardware 3D. Go figure. Didn't even take weeks/months of Googling, reading man pages, and combing the lists... it just worked. After the uniformity of my experiences from SuSE 5.2 up through 9.x, that was really surprising. Unfortunately, over all those years I got thoroughly out of the habit of playing any games, so now I've got no use for 3D. :-) As well, I've had various bits of hardware be recognized and configured by SuSE install for years, then install the latest SuSE and have it forget it ever knew this sound-card, that video card, this other network adapter... So, with the way this thread has been going in both directions, I still think that having YaST recognize and properly configure your system is generally a matter of luck or whim of the gods. Usually, it takes me until the next release is coming out, to get the last release all working. Keeps me off the streets. Kevin