I have also been scared by what seem to be lots of problems posting to this list about getting nVidia cards to work. Is that all old hat now, with dirivers working and easily available/installable and hunky-dory? Generally, my needs are commonplace usage, some graphics and photo work, mostly light duty, some gaming (Quake when I can get it to run, as I have not recently). Thanks for suggestions. Please don't let me be the instigator of a big flame war; I just want to know what people think of the "other" cards and what might be similar to ATI maybe 9200, 9600, like that.
Well, I'm not running SuSE on an Nvidia card (yet-- new laptop SHOULD be here this week... Providing Fedex doesn't do anything else stupid, like shipping the package back to the sender like they did today!) but the main thing seems to be that after any upgrade/reinstall of the Kernel, you have to reload video drivers. Nvidia has probably provided the best "manufacturer" video card support for Linux over anyone else out there.