Hi Nikhil,
As far as I know XF86 4.0 has full NVIDIA support. Correct me if I'm
wrong.
http://www.kernel.org/XFree86/FAQ/index.html#Riva128
Thanks for the info on the large HDD.
-- Raju
>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nick> here is a piece of advice. DONT get a TNT gfx card. It has
Nick> _horrible_ drivers and btw, in a recent benchmark for linux,
Nick> they didn't even include it as they couldn't find a decent
Nick> set of drivers, which they can compare. NVIDIA was claiming
Nick> support for linux, but as we can all see, its something of a
Nick> commercial ploy, and it isn't gonna materialize soon. The
Nick> XFree86 and PI put in quite a bit of work into the DRI, and
Nick> NVIDIA plans to write a driver which is _not_ gonna be on
Nick> DRI. And, btw, their drivers aren't gonna be OSS. It may not
Nick> matter to end users, but unless a company is _encouraged_ to
Nick> make their drivers OSS, it may result in more binary-only
Nick> drivers, and more binary-only apps, and god knows what
Nick> trojans are hidden behind them. I'd suggest u go for a 3dfx
Nick> card. a V3 is pretty kewl, and if u plan to a wait a bit
Nick> more go for a V5, as there is plenty of support for these
Nick> cards...
Nick> As for the HDDs above 20GB. as i said i've got a 17 GB hdd
Nick> running linux pretty kewl. the lilo which comes with RH6.1,
Nick> has some probs if the boot maps are >1024 cylinders, but u
Nick> can get away by putting a /boot in a seperate partition
Nick> somewhere in the begginning of the HDD. Someone on this list
Nick> claimed that the latest LILO supports >1024 cyls. so i guess
Nick> its not a problem anymore...
Nick> Nikhil.
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