best new video cards for linux?

[josephc at etards.net]

ATI has all but abandoned support for Linux. It has not released a driver
since 11/2002 and has no plans to release future drivers.

NVIDIA regularly releases their own closed source driver which easily
installs and self configures (provided that you already have a local copy
of your kernel source).

TV-Out and Twin-View are simple to configure with NVIDIA cards.

-joe

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Charles Peterman wrote:

> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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> >
> 
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