Rui Santos wrote:
William Hammond wrote:
I'm going to put together a box for someone who basically just plays simple games (Solitaire) and goes on line.
I thought OpenSuSE might be a good choice for her.
I see a lot of threads about Nvidia, and my personal experience with OpenSuSE Graphics has be less than stellar. Often the screens are virtually unreadable even after setting font size, and of course downloading TT, but I probably don't really know how to properly configure a desktop.
but, I digress, the question is: Is there a preferred video chip set or a particular series of Video Card that has better support for OpenSuSE out of the Box...? Well, I've been using NVidia for a few year and they all worked well for me but, sometimes is not an out-of-the-box solution.
Recently I've experienced three ( I know only three, but it's a hint ) computers with Intel OnBoard VGA. The results were excellent. It will exceed your specifications by far. It will also provide you 3D out-of-the-box ( at least on openSUSE 10.3). The VGA Chip is a an Intel 965G. From what I've been reading most of semi-recent Intel chips will suffice your need if you use a recent distribution. Maybe someone else will share his/her experience on Intel Chips... This is my 1 cent...
I've had good experience with intel onboard video. On a laptops that is absolutely my first choice, since the integrated driver seems to make things like suspend/resume work much better, and performance is satisfactory. OTOH on a gaming machine, I'd probably go with nvidia for now. That said, the nvidia card died some time ago on my main home desktop, and I never got around to replacing it since the onboard intel video works well enough. I can't play the latest 3D FPS, but it has more than enough capability to do the desktop eye candy, and I can play that old favorite, quake 3 arena quite well. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org