Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread adcarlson
For awhile ATI was not supporting Linux. They've improved significantly as of late. I highly recommend Nvidia stuff. Excellent Linux support. Matrox is good for 2D stuff. On 20-Jan-2004 Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread rthoreau
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:46:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For awhile ATI was not supporting Linux. They've improved significantly as of late. I highly recommend Nvidia stuff. Excellent Linux support. Matrox is good for 2D stuff. On 20-Jan-2004 Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21,

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:30:39 +, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia none the less, they do support Linux (or Xwindows should i say) alot more/better than other companies. Hmm,

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Ryan Mackay rinmak at technine.org writes: If i was you, i would take the best of both worlds and go with a GeForce 4 MX440 If I'm install Woody from scratch, will the stock `nv` driver work fine with the above card until I can finish the installation and grab the newer drivers? thanks much

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:42:29 -0500, Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:30:39 +, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia none

Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-20 Thread M . Kirchhoff
I'm in the market for a new video card, so I'm fishing for suggestions. I will mostly be working in 2D apps (mainly internet, office apps). I do *not* intend to play any taxing 3D games such as Quake or Counter-Strike; however, I would like to do some video editing (transferring home movies to

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:45:08PM +, M. Kirchhoff wrote: I'm in the market for a new video card, so I'm fishing for suggestions. I will mostly be working in 2D apps (mainly internet, office apps). I do *not* intend to play any taxing 3D games such as Quake or Counter-Strike;

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-20 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia none the less, they do support Linux (or Xwindows should i say) alot more/better than other companies. Hmm, I'm constantly advising people NOT to buy nVidia stuff

Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation

2004-01-20 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday January 21 at 04:41am Ryan Mackay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If i was you, i would take the best of both worlds and go with a GeForce 4 MX440 I'll second that. I've got a geforce 4 mx440se with 128mb on it that I got for about $80 a year ago. Runs games decent, quality drivers