On 07/25 08:38 , Dave Erickson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:45, Randy Clarksean wrote: > > > > Are any of you running a moderately decent video card on Suse 8 or 9? <snip> > Any recent NVIDIA based card. I disagree. I've had poor luck with those drivers. They do some nifty things (3D acceleration across both heads, auto-detect external monitor on a laptop); but my main problems with them are: - they often screw up the console when switching out of X. If you ever leave X (either shutting it down nicely, or ctrl+alt+f1); it might put gibberish on the text console, and you might not be able to resume a sane X session. IMHO, this is unforgiveable. - For better or worse, they don't use large parts of the X subsystem. One of the places this shows up is in interpreting X modelines. So if you're like me, and have a highly-tweaked modeline on one of your monitors, it won't let you drive it as hard. - Xinerama support is badly emulated (again, they aren't using that part of X). So if you have two monitors of different resolutions, the driver can't comprehend a non-rectangular array of screens. > get one with dual VGA outputs and try dual monitors! ATIs will do this as well; in some cases they support 3D accel on both heads (using 'mergedfb'); and there's some hope of getting a decent X driver for ATI hardware in the future, so you're not stuck with the hassles of binary-only drivers. but maybe I'm just too damn picky about my video hardware. :) that said; nVidia probably still has the fastest 3D accelleration under Linux (but I don't know). so if you're willing to sacrifice everything in the name of speed, they might still be the way to go. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list