Don't be scared of "what seem to be lots of problems posting to this list about getting nVidia cards to work". If anything it because of the fact that there ARE drivers for nvidia cards, and lots of options, and people here to help. I have used nVidia (under SuSE) since 6.3 and never looked back. They are excellent for OpenGL. The VIVO is somewhat lacking, (rivaTV doesn't work with binary drivers, yet). B-) On Monday 20 December 2004 02:21 pm, Richard wrote:
Blasphemy! I have always been an ATI card user, mostly for the AIW option, but the inability to get drivers to use for 2.6 kernel, X.org files, and so on is getting me to turn attention to nVidia. At the risk of starting a major catfight over cards, any suggestions? I was somewhat comfortable knowing ATI card numbers and "what they had under the hood" but am in the dark for nVidia. I have not seen an AIW equivalent. Is there one, or is that not such a great idea anyway, and if not, what is a good TV card for linux? 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. Thanks, Richard