Re: Video Card, Linux, and You!

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:42:03 -0700

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:54:11 GMT
Ryan Baldwin <ryanbaldwin_no_spam_@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I've been reading that nVidia cards aren't the greatest cards in the
>
> world to have with a Linux system. I'm wondering what you vets
> would recommend instead of the nVidia that I have? ATI? Matrox?
>

I have actually had pretty good luck with nVidia. I've been using a
Riva TNT2 (32MB) card for several years without problems. At work I've
used S3 Virge, ATI, Matrox, several generics with Trident chipsets and
they have all worked ok -- the Tridents are still being used, the ATI
blew up on a power bump, the Matrox is dying and the S3 Virge is dead.
These are all older cards, so it's not unusual that they're dying now.
I never did get the S3 or Matrox running under Mandrake 9.0, but that
is probably due to the fact that they were getting ready to die . . .
or actually in their death throes! :-) 

-- 
Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
Open standards. Open source. Open minds.
The command line is the front line.
Linux 2.4.10-4GB
 10:34am  up 22 days, 14:46,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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