[ale] video card recommendation

matty91 at bellsouth.net matty91 at bellsouth.net
Mon May 26 13:55:21 EDT 2003


On Mon, 26 May 2003, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

>  ATI has a bad reputation when it comes to
> > drivers though....
> > Yours,
> > Emil P. Man
>
> Yes.
> 1. I saw that one of their drivers was proprietary.
> 2. I saw that many people seem to have problems with the Raedion 7000 on the
> dri website suggested yesterday.
> 3. I am trying to avoid ATI and Nvidia altogether.
>
> Doesn't anyone have a video card that works right after installation without
> configuration?

You can use the "nv" XFree driver out of the box w/ Nvidia cards. It only
provides 2d support, but for most purposes, it works well. From what I
have read, it is stabler than the NVIDIA driver.

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