RE: [SLUG] Video cards
Title: Message Anyone have any advice regarding the Creative 3D blaster series of graphic cards?Any ones that are particularly good or any that are unsupported under Linux?What video card would most people recommend these days for use under Linux? (Ok... so I guess that depends on purpose right...) Michael, I'm using a Creative Blaster 3D on one machine here - it's a RIVA TNT, which works fine under Mandrake 9.1 - I also have a RIVA TNT2 in the workstation in the office (which is essentially a creative one anyway) and it also performs fine - Tuxracer runs quite nicely. As for what videocards to use, yes it does dependon the use... My workstation at home has a GeForce2 MX400 in it, as it's not really used for gaming much... Personally, I'd stick with the GeForce range4 (NVidia) for ease of use and drivers... Although the new Radeon 5900 shows a lot of promise. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] video cards
On Monday 12 August 2002 22:00, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: hlllpp! snip well, here I am .. you guessed it, yep, the old x server won't work on this card problem. I tried using ./xf86config and fed it all the guff under the sun and checked that the output ends up in the config file, which it does, but still no joy, does anyone have any pointers on how to set a video card up under linux without having to go to re-installation of the system, for a start, where the hell is superprobe? You will probably have more luck with Xfree version 4.x rather than 3.3.6 or there abouts. If memory serves me correctly, xf86config works on the 3.3.6 version and xf86cfg works on 4.x. Just a thought (I use sax2 in SuSE) Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
