Re: Linux Compatible Video Card?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/23/05 

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:15:10 -0500

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:42:38 +0200, Krimgelas staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> ray wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:11:42 +0200, Krimgelas wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of a video card that is fully compatible with
>>> Linux? I don't play games, so 3D is probably not so important. I do
>>> want tv-out working, but don't want to install any proprietary
>>> drivers.

TV-out for almost every card with TV-out is a PITA without the evil
binary-only modules AFAICT. I have heard that it's possible to get
TV-out working on some cards with the VESA X module, but that's really a
bit of a last resort.

>> I've had good experiences with the nvidia cards - the driver from
>> nvidia seems to be very good.
> Which type of nvidia card would be entirely compatible with a normal
> Linux installation? Do the newer cards still function without the
> proprietary driver?

All nVidia cards available these days use the same X module. Any nVidia
card will work with "nv" (2D only, no TV-out) or "nvidia" (3D, TV-out,
evil nVidia binary modules.) I recently bought an nVidia GeForce 4 MX,
and getting TV-out working was fairly simple once I'd read and
understood the "configuring TV-out" and "configuring TwinView" parts of
the README that comes with the evil nVidia modules. 

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