On Tuesday 14 June 2005 06:44, D'Arcy MacIsaac wrote:
or an ATi based card. Any comments or insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanx... -Ubence
Go with the Nvidia, unless you're really into pain and massive annoyance. I imagine both have great lines of cards, but in terms of linux (and bsd) friendliness, nvidia's the only serious game in town (stupid easy SINGLE driver install for most of their models (by single I'm comparing it to that monstrosity of a web site that ATI has you hunt around to find just the right driver for your particular card), and great performance).
Gosh, that's strange. The ATI drivers were included with the distro. Didn't have to download them. And they installed without any problems.
ATIs on the other hand are an abhorrence in Linux. I should know, my Linux desktop at work (a Dell optiplex 280) has an ATI X300 on it. I did try their most recent driver (with the gui installer and all), and the best I've gotten with it now is 2D, 3D doesn't work. I did have 3D working at one point with the card, on SUSE I believe using the older fglrx drivers that were on the 9.3 dvd, but not now. Even when I've seen 3D working on it though (under linux), performance has been subpar. My old GeForce2 would've given better results I think.
I picked up the latest from SUSE. Same as the ATI site, installed and work flawlessly. BTW the card is a 9800pro on a dual AMD platform. AS for yours, I wouldn't even purchase a dell. Most that I've seen, and we have about 125 of them at work, are the worst excuse for a computer I've seen. Shoddy workmanship and cheap parts. If you can't get it to work, that's fine. But your general statement is just plain wrong. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11 KDE 3.4.0 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:12pm up 3 days 1:52, 4 users, load average: 2.22, 2.19, 2.17