On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:56:53 +0100 (BST) "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <quote who="Ian Truelsen"> > > I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo > > 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which > > of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for > > framebuffer stuff and for DRI. > > > > Given the choice between the two, which would you choose for Linux? > > When I bought my card recently, that was exactly my question. What is > (1) the most powerful card that (2) makes no noise and (3) works > perfectly in linux? > > The answer I concluded upon was the "Asus V9520 Magic/T GeForce FX > 5200 128MB (GX-013-AS)". That's the sixth card down on the link > below. > Great minds think alike. That is the board that I bought today. Installed without a hitch and gets 3D accel right out of the box. The only problem that I have is that it does not see to like the frame buffer modes from grub. I had vga=794 in my grub line, which worked fine for my Voodoo3, but results in a blank black screen for the nVidia. I enabled the frambuffer setup in the kernel, but the only option that I saw there was for the riva, which I enabled but doesn't seem to get the proper functionality. Are you able to use fb modes from grub? If so, could you pass along the options that you selected in the fb kernel config section? I would be very appreciative. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
