Re: Linux Compatible Video Card?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/24/05 

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:05:04 -0500

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:21:45 +0200, Krimgelas staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> Dances With Crows wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:42:38 +0200, Krimgelas staggered into the
>> Black Sun and said:
>>> 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.
> Although this might be an oversimplification, it seems from reading
> other posts that Nvidia drivers are very good.

"Easy to install, configure, and use", doesn't necessarily mean "very
good". It's nice that they're easy to work with, but some people have
had problems with some versions of the nVidia modules.

> 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?

You can download the evil module and read the README, which tells you
all about setting up TwinView (2 screens). I don't know what's
different about 3 screens, but it's probably in there. 

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