video cards

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jon Pruente wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:19 AM, feba thatl <febaen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  ATI might work for you; when I tried to use it I got nothing but
> >  problems, both on Windows and Linux. The same goes for everyone else
> >  I've ever talked to about graphics cards on linux. Nvidia, however,
> >  worked out of the box. I'm not going to argue that it's better to be
> >  open source when possible; obviously that's the main reason most of us
> >  are here; but neither of those companies are very good options yet.
>
> Recent personal experience (Dec/Jan):  ATI not so fun, nVidia just
> worked.  I had purchased an ATI HD2400 256MB AGP card for myself, 

That card is too new; it's in the "drivers currently in development" category.
Up to the X850 are an entirely different story.

> It's nice that ATI is going Open, but from what I read about my problem it
> was likely to be an issue with the AGP controller chip on  the card to
> translate the PCIe native chip to my old system. 

What does PCIe have to do with an AGP system?