Re: Recommended video card for Redhat

From: Markku Kolkka (markku.kolkka_at_iki.fi)
Date: 01/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:13:03 +0200

linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a plain vanilla video card
> (no TVs, etc.) that just -works- with Redhat?
> AGP please.

I have a Radeon 9000 card, and it "just works" without any extra driver
installation.

> Why must Nvidia's drivers tie into the base operating
> system kernel? Why are they not self contained, separate
> from the kernel?

The driver must access the card hardware directly, that's why there must
be a component that runs as a kernel module.
nVidia refuses to tell Linux developers how their cards work, that's why
the driver can't be included in the standard kernel like the Radeon DRM
module. 

-- 
        Markku Kolkka
        markku.kolkka@iki.fi

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