[opensuse] nVidia Video Card Advice Please

I just recently replaced my motherboard with a newer board
with PCIe support (AMD x2 Dual Core 5200+) and an integrated
nVidia 6100 video adapter. The integrated adapter works and I
was finally able to install the nVidia drivers for 3D support,
but it leaves a lot to be desired. First off, it wasn't even
recognized by OpenSUSE. It came up as a Vesa Framebuffer
adapter and I couldn't change it. I ran "sax2 -r -m 0=nv" to
get wide screen resolution from my monitor, then installed the
nvidia drivers.

It still shows up as a Vesa Framebuffer adapter even though
the nVidia drivers are loaded. Also, I am getting extremely
bad ghosting (shadowing) of my fonts which is especially
noticeable while typing on a white background. I've tried
adjusting the aliasing/anti-aliasing and changing to and from
sub-pixel hinting with varying hinting styles, but so far I
haven't come across the magic combination yet to get rid of
the lousy looking fonts.

I've got a MAG 22" wide screen LCD monitor and the setup with
my old motherboard worked perfectly for me with a nVidia
GeForce FX 5200 AGP card.

My question is this: Is there something I may be missing in
the setup of the integrated 6100 or should I just buy a
separate PCIe 16x adapter? Which nVidia adapter would you
folks recommend? I don't have a whole lot to spend on it at
this point but would like something that works with 3D enabled
and renders the fonts like my old 5200 did.

I checked the HCL and found that the GeForce 7300LE PCIe is
supposed to work properly with 10.2. Are any of you using that
adapter and if so how is it working out for you?

Thanks very much for your help.

Mike
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