> Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. > Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having.
> I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. > I ask the above, as I've run most major brands of cards and really haven't had major problems with Nvidia, the lower end Ati cards, Matrox cards, nor with Via Castlerock gfx. Even 3D Labs sort of worked. The only real problem with an Nvidia card was with a 5700SE on a dual Athlon-MP motherboard. But that was Nvidia putting some crappy bios on that card. > Here's the basic requirements: > > 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( > 2. Completely compatible and dependable with the 2.6+ series of kernels. > 3. Capable of driving monitor at 1600x1200. > Well, the Ati 9200 series should work. Depends on the radeon driver in Xorg. Lots of fixes going into Xorg 6.8-r4 and 6.8.1 for the radeon driver. As Holly stated, the Matrox G450/G550 are fine graphics cards - a bit light on memory and a bit high in price. > > Please send me your recommendations for brand, memory, etc. > While you really don't need more that 8 MB for most desktops, I'd look to getting at least 64 MB. If you ever think you might want to load up some 3D app, then 128MB would be the minimum choice. Easy to find and fairly inexpensive. As to brands...silly rule-of-thumb - look for a site like Newegg or something closer to you, find all the boards with the chipset/feature you want. Buy in the upper 2/3 of the price range. Stay away from the extremes. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
