I'll second the vote on the radeon. The radeon 8500 isn't supported. If
you pick either a generic radeon up or one of the 7000 series card you
shouldn't have any troubles. Stay with the AGP version of the cards.
Don't bother with the "VE" versions of the radeon if you are a gamer, it
lacks some acceleration features that are probably going to be supported
in the next release of XFree86 (check out the traffic concerning the
tcl-0-0-0 CVS branch of the DRI).
The r128, G400's, and Voodoo3/4/5 have been really stable for a while for
3-D, but the hardware shows it's age with any game engine newer than
quake3 or Unreal Tournament (tribes 2 is unplayable on these cards).
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Bpreece wrote:
> Anita the ATI's seem to be the easiest ones to deal with IMHO.
> I got the All in Wonder Radeon 7500 also has tv tuner 8-)
>
> Also has 64 meg ddr ram AGP
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anita Pesola <jb2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
> Date: Saturday, March 30, 2002 3:29 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] Best video card?
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >A question arises from my husband, who is fed up with trying to
> >reinstall nVidia drivers with each distro of Linux he runs. What is the
> >best video card---compatibility wise---for both Linux and Windoze???
> >Right now he's running a geForce version
> >(Hercules 3D Prophet II) and every time he turns around he has to
> >recompile the drivers for the nVidia card.
> >
> >Remember, this comes from him. :-)
> >
> >Anita
> >
> >
>
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