Re: Linux Compatible Video Card?

From: Krimgelas (krimgelas_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/05

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    Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:21:45 +0200

    Dances With Crows wrote:

    > 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.
    >

    Somewhere I read that ATI has good hardware, but terrible drivers and with
    Nvidia it would be the other way around. Although this might be an
    oversimplification, it seems from reading other posts that Nvidia drivers
    are very good. Although the Gatos driver might work as well with my current
    Ati card, the installation does not seem to be straightforward. That's why
    I think I will upgrade to an Nvidia card, maybe the GeForce FX5700 128MB
    AGP TV-Out DVI 2VGA. But I want to be sure that the nvidia driver will
    indeed support attaching two displays and tv-out. Can this be confirmed?

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