Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-07 Thread Corey Popelier
Well nVidia's drivers and kernel module work great for me. I endorse whatever works for me, regardless of the company :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks that: In all reviews that I've studied, the NVIDIA cards seem to be the winners of performance, but the fact that they don't have a receptive attitude towards the community means that they don't want people like me as

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:34:28PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: ---snip--- This is what made me choose a Matrox G400 for my new system (together with the recommendation of a close friend that said the G400 was running quite fast in his system). ---snip--- I also opted for

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread wulfie
I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE (sorry!) box. == Paul Sims

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that wulfie wrote: I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I too have had severe lockups either starting XF86 4.0 or ctl-alt-Fx'ing to a text console. My specific hardware is a 16Mb Sparkle Nvidia Vanta AGP 2x card, this on my main SuSE (sorry!)

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 03 2000, wulfie wrote: I'll second the anti-Nvidia driver lobby. I'm planning on buying a new computer soon (a Duron) and one of the things that was hardest to understand was which video card to get. It seems that there is an hiatus between el-cheapo,

Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait until XF 4.0x. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Matrox Millenium

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux. I've narrowed it down to three but the real requirement is will they work with Debian 2.2 as is and not with either special drivers or wait

RE: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Ingles, Raymond
From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.11.00: I'm upgrading my video card... Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Matrox Millenium 5400 32MB =G400? If yes, this one should do fine, as well Both of these are solid cards, and

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Obviously Ingles, Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks that: Yup. I've got a TNT and I'm gradually getting support going for it in my Debian 2.2 installation. There are older, slower drivers for X 3.3.x, but for full speed you need 4.0. Yeah, that's *obviously* (believing what the utah-glx

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Kristian Rink wrote: Any other sugestions appreciated. I left off the NVIDIA 5or close to it) crds because the GeForce2 seem to prefer XF 4.0x. That is true. Basically, nvidia`s chipsets (at least for TNT2 I tried) also are supported by XF

RE: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread Ingles, Raymond
From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be fair, it's not really Nvidia's fault, they licensed technology for their cards from other people and don't have the right to release the source code for driving that stuff. Hmm, okay, but *seems* (as far as I know) their first

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-03 Thread pluto
I bought a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP last week and I didn't have any problems installing it under debian 2.2, and it runs well. On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:48:05PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I'm upgrading my video card and have read several online breakdowns of the assorted cards and linux.