best new video cards for linux?

[peterman at eecs.tufts.edu (Charles Peterman)]

I'm sorry I did not give enough details or qualifiers, hopefully a more
thorough explanation will suffice.

If you are looking for a low end video card to just make the silly,
already fully installed box work, the cheapo ati cards (7000 PCI)  are
just peachy with whatever revision of XFree86 you are running >3.3.6 (I
believe, somebody smack me if I am wrong.)  For XFree86 4.x, you modify
one line in the XF86Config, and you are off to the races.  For XF86 3.x, I
would imagine a bit more work in that file is needed.

The cheapo cards based on NVIDIA chipsets after GeForceIII have been more
hassle than they are worth. The last one that I installed did not work
with the nv driver in XF86 4.2 and required that I update my XFree86
install and make additions to the kernel, in addition to modifying the
XF86Config.

If you don't mind doing all that, then yes, the nvidia drivers are spiffy.
But if this is just for doing 2D display stuff, ati _just works_.

-Charles

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 josephc at etards.net wrote:

> 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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