[Wylug-help] Linux-compatible graphics card

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Geoff Richards wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could anyone recommend a graphics card that will definitely work without
> problems on Linux (Debian unstable in particular, with Xorg).
>
> I don't want anything too fancy.  It would be nice if accellerated
> OpenGL was available just in case, but I'm not likely to use it much.
> Mostly I just want xv video playing to be fast.
>
> I was using an NVidia card (a cheap one from a few years ago) until the
> fan gave out.  That worked fine except for the occasional annoyance of
> having to recompile the kernel module when the kernel got updated.

DKMS can make that go away by rebuilding when necessary.  nVidia still gives
the most reliable accelerated behaviour under X.  It still has *many* bugs and
performance issues, but fewer than others...

> It needs to do 1280x1024 at true colour, but I suppose they would all
> do that nowadays.

Yup.

jh

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