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.
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