On 07/06/2011 03:21 PM, C wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 20:28, LLLActive@GMX.Net
wrote: I seem to have some problems with openSUSE 11.4 and graphics cards. Mine are relatively old nVidia (GeForce GT 220) and ATI's (Radeon X550/ RV370/SapphireX550 Silent).
The nVidia card is suspect, I think an onboard memory problem. It freezes up irregularly. I want to replace it.
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Well, I'm fed up with these cards.
Please suggest the best fully supported Video card for openSuSE 11.4 and other Linux and future versions.
Budget?
I'd stay away from anything called ATI. They are nothing but trouble from the get-go... especially if you want to play a game via Wine (or Crossover) once in a while (ATI are well known not to work well, if at all, with Wine gaming). The proprietary driver is cumbersome (more so than the nVidia one), and they are infamous for dropping Linux driver support for cards that are hardly considered old.
I've got a nVidia GTX260, and it works flawlessly in openSUSE 11.4. The GT 200 is a very slow low end budget OEM card, so def not representative of what decent nVidia cards are capable of.
So... short of it is.. buy a decent nVidia card, and you should (in theory) be trouble-free in Linux.
But with an nVidia card one is for now stuck with the proprietary blob which is not always trouble free either. The open source ATI driver is I think a bit father ahead than the nouveau driver for the nVidia cards. Al, you might want to check with the upstream projects status, http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto, http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon. Of course if you do not care about including binary blobs in the kernel nVidia as a good choice. Unfortunately for graphics there are still issues w.r.t. availability of open source drivers. I have three boxes with nVidia cards and it works, but I am not happy about the binary blob and am a bit nervous every time I update the kernel. HTH, Robert
C.
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