[SWLUG] Compatability questions

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>> Rich Colquhoun wrote:
>>
>> A far as graphics cards are concerned you're best off going with NVIDIA
>> or ATI because they supply Linux specific drivers.
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> Steve Hill wrote:
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> I would avoid nVidia - whilst they do supply binary drivers for Linux, 
> they are a pain in the arse (they are buggy, power management is flakey as 
> hell, nVidia's support often lags behind anyone else's by many months so 
> you can often kiss goodbye to running the latest distro, and no one in 
> their right mind will debug any kernel problems if you have the nVidia 
> module loaded).
I was going to build my own last January but instead went for the 
cheaper option(!) and bought an Acer Aspire T180 
<http://www.linux.com/articles/60831> and added an older Leadtek WinFast 
[ie Nvidia] 7600GT 256MB DDR3 Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card. Have been 
using it with Kubuntu for a year now. Didn't take too much setup but 
wasn't that simple as teh dual screen stuff had to be hand edited to 
work properly (that was a KDE fault though I think). Coming from 
Slackware I've not found it too hard to properly enable the drivers 
after they broke doing dist-upgrades, YMMV. I've run the beta of 
Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) without graphics problems.

The card does have a hardware bug somewhere but it's the same on both my 
OS (Vista, Ubuntu).

FWIW

pbhj
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