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Re: [PLUG] Video card recommendations?
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(new member here - so go easy on me...)
I use the Nvidia GX 400 series cards at home, not the most recent cards nor the speediest I admit but they get the job done on my budget... I also run SuSE 9.1 and the Nvidia driver is not picked up cleanly when you let Sax2 run... Instead I might recommend running YaST Online Update (YOU)... there will be a choice to d/l the Nvidia package/script... when this script is run, it will install and configure the card for use - allowing 3D and higher resolutions. The only caveat I found - AGP is not configurable and will default to 2x (higher AGP values may mean a kernel hack/recompile). The online update (YOU) is recommended over running the package available for d/l from the Nvidia site - I have had little luck with this method - mainly due to library locations (maybe just a SuSE thing?)
As for overall card performance, I use KDE and I must say overall there has been no issues. Gaming performance (Tux Racer, Pingus, TORCS, and TuxKart, etc.) was very playable - no lag or annoying screen flicker. Video capture is very decent too (in this AMD box, I have a Hauppage WinTV tuner card too)
Hope this helps in some way...
regards,
-fred u.
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> Does anyone have favorite recommendations for video cards under Linux?
>
> My old video card overheated itself and I replaced it with a BFG Tech
> "GeForce MX 4000" with 128 MB DDR and AGP 8x/4x. The choice of card is an
> entire story in iteslf (basically a package reading error.)
>
> Frankly, my experience is that the card stinks with Linux. It is not on
> the list of recognized cards in SaX2 (under SuSE 9.1) and BFG has very
> little about Linux other than "use nvidia drivers". It "works" as a "VESA
> Framebuffer Graphics (nvidia)" card but sometimes the VC's are black or
> speckled white/multicolor and I have to reboot the machine to fix that.
>
> What cards have you used that you'd recommend? I do very little gaming but
> would like some 3D acceleration for those rare occasions when I do. Cost
> is an object... keeping it under $100 - way under if possible :-) Oh, and
> it should not have a fan... that's how the last one got toasted :-(
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> --
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> # Eric Lucas
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> public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the
> First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of
> communicating ideas.
> --William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, 1953
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