[Gllug] Video card recommendation

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:27:17PM +0000, jane taylor wrote:
> 
> The ordered card was the rather cheaper ATi Xpert 2000Pro, which also
> worked first time and very nicely under Linux when I finally got it! 
> Windoze was another story... I get errors on bootup both W95 and 2k,
> with the supplied drivers,  though none have ever tripped up anything
> once booted. Beware. (Plays Quake ok though!)

Tis true, ATI cards work much better under Linux - the Windows drivers
are terrible.  A thing to watch, though, is that the ATI VESA
implementation is a bit flaky, which causes problems for the framebuffer
driver and for SVGAlib.

-- 
Bruce

A problem shared brings the consolation that someone else is now
feeling as miserable as you.
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