best new video cards for linux?

[Charles Peterman]

Stick with ATI, the official nvidia drivers require fairly
gross kernel hacks. ATI works right out of the box.

(My advice is based on too #@%$ many nights spent trying to
get the nvidia drivers to play nicely with different kernel configs)


-Charles

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:52:25 +0000
> dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a good time to buy a Matrox or ATI card.
> >
> > They're well supported under X and W2K, with great 2D performance.
> >
> > A Matrox G450 with 32MB supports two monitors and runs about $80. This
> > is probably the best color accuracy choice. These are widely available
> > in both AGP and PCI versions, and coexist nicely with each other and
> > other video cards for multimonitor applications.
> >
> > An ATI Radeon 7000 with 32MB supports one monitor and a TV or LCD for
> > about $40.
> The nVidia GeForce cards are supposed to be excellent, and nVidia
> supports Linux by making their drivers available to the Linux and
> FreeBSD communities.
>
> (Take my advice with a grain of salt as I have a 3dfx VooDoo3.
>
>
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