Video Cards on linux

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 08:23 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Juan Kawada wrote:
> 
> > Ok, so with linux a lot of people seem to have problems with video cards,
> > and their drivers. I'm just wondering, what cards have you used and what
> > was the overall experiance with them? Were you using the proprietary
> > drivers, or the opensource versions?
> > 
> > Right now I'm using an ATI Radeon 2600 HD Pro. Everything works well
> > enough with only some minor problems. First, when I boot up my computer
> > the screen resolution is never correct, but krandrtray fixes that easily
> > enough. Another problem was that the free Alsa driver that was used
> > automatically with my install didn't support 3D, and so I had to enable
> > the proprietary to get compiz, and to play games. Overall though, I can't
> > complain.
> > 
> > I'm just looking to gain some knowlage about different cards here, for
> > other people I know who are curious, and for when I decide to upgrade my
> > own
> > card.  So please no flame wars about propriety vs open drivers (which
> > always seems to happen in other discussions on this topic).
> Hi Juan,
> I've got an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB vram and no problems. I use the
> proprietary fglrx driver which I download from the ATI site and build using
> module-assistant after each kernel upgrade. I use this driver to get 3D
> acceleration and it does with no problems.
> Cheers,

Juan, I have an nVidia GeForce 6200 AGP with 256 M DDR ram that works
quite well. I have all the video effects enabled and it's still pretty
snappy. The price is right too, about $40.


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