video cards

[Jon Pruente]

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, and
it just wouldn't work in Linux with the ATI Catalyst drivers.  It also
had a very hard time getting up in Windows (I went so far as to
install a 30-day trial of Vista, just to see if it was the hardware
failing after trying for so long in Linux).  I returned the card to
MicroCenter and purchased a 7600GS 256MB AGP card, which I dropped in
and Ubuntu found the binary drivers for and just started working.
Vista picked it up too, but Vista was only a memory soon after...  I
didn't have the spendy for anything faster from nVidia, but it was
going in my P4 AGP machine, so anything faster would be pretty much a
waste.

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.

Jon.