On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:16:24PM -0700, John wrote:
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> Excuse the forward the mail got bonced!
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> Does anyone have a recommendation for a video that will work in Linux that
> is not Nvidia based. I have a geforce 2 mx 32MB right now that likely will be
> going back to Best Buy as I cannot get it to work in LM8.0. I would like to
> get something that can offer close to the performance of the geforce 2 mx
> with roughly the same $100 price tag!
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> Thanks for any suggestions,
> John W
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I have been playing around with video cards a lot recently. Actually I just
put in a geforce 2 yesterday because my old voodoo 3 just doesn't have the
oomph to handle tribes2. The nvidia card set up with no problems here - what
kind of difficulty were / are you having?
Recommendations based on my very limited experiences:
If you are not playing Tribes 2, then the voodoo 3 will work fine but there
are problems with changing resolutions while in runlevel 5 (same problems
that the nvidia cards have?) so you have boot to runlevel 3 and then startx.
A bit of a pain perhaps but the card handles Q3A and UT with no problems.
The matrox g400 is my recommendation if you aren't overly worried about 3d.
it works great, is reasonably stable (ymmv) and can also handle Q3A, UT, and
SoF with no problems, although a game with lots of people might result in
unacceptable framerates.
Both those cards can easily do a 12?? x 10?? desktop at 16 bit.
Sorry, i don't have any experience with any other cards except the nvidia i
got yesterday, so cannot say how the matrox or voodoo compare with ati or
other cards.
If you are planning to play Tribes 2, i would suggest sticking with the
nvidia - others might work, but not as nearly as well, from what i've seen.
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