Well nVidia's drivers and kernel module work great for me. I endorse whatever works for me, regardless of the company :)
Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: > "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > > > I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the > > assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real > > requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either > > special drivers or wait until XF 4.0x. > > > > Voodoo 3 3000 AGP > > Works fine with 2.2, as for what I found until now, since the most packages > needed (glide) already are included in standard stock of potato, and they > work fine with XF3.3.6 > > > Matrox Millenium 5400 32MB > ~~~~ > =G400? If yes, this one should do fine, as well, but You'll have to install > utah-glx drivers (utah-glx.sourceforge.net) to get hardware-based glx > support, but this is easy since the drivers are to be found as .deb files on > the utah-glx site... > > > The Voodoo and ATI cards were listed as generic in XF86Setup. Will that > > cause recognition problems? > > No problems, for what I know, for both cards. Any other experiences, anybody? > :))) > > > Any other sugestions appreciated. I left off the NVIDIA 5or close to it) > > crds because the GeForce2 seem to prefer XF 4.0x. > > Basically, nvidia`s chipsets (at least for TNT2 I tried) also are supported > by XF 3.3.6 and utah-glx... Besides this, after trying out for several times, > I don't at all recommend running nvidia-based cards in XF 4.x for the > following reasons: > > (a) NVIDIAs drivers for those cards (even while being fast) are obviously > still *very* unreliable, which (at least with my TNT2 board) caused several > severe crashes of the x-server (especially while running "gears" or other of > those problems with -root option set, and while trying to switch to the text > console and back to X again). > > (b) besides that, those drivers are binary-only and they seem to have some > problems with certain 2.4.0-testx kernels (don`t know if they fixed by now). > Installation seems to be difficult sometimes due to unresolved conflicts with > installed MESA-version while using those drivers on systems which are not > RedHat-based (because nvidia only are offering .rpm - packages and `generic` > archives as .tar.gz ...). > > (c) nvidia still is not very cooperative in providing the developers of > `open` driver systems with information, that's why utah-glx is still very > much slower than their native drivers because it`s not possible for those to > use DMA on that card. This is why I am tending to ask people to please DO NOT > SUPPORT companies like nvidia and their attempt of bringing proprietary > drivers to Linux... Thank You! > > Regards, > Kristian > > _______________________________________________________________________ > 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
