David Teague said: > Hi > > Would some kind soul please tell me which video card to put in my > new machine (which is still in the planning) that will Debian Woody > and Gnome X out of the box?
for stability - matrox g400. the machine im on now has been up for 180days 22hours. running ona G400. i upgraded from potato to woody about 45 days ago. running in 1600x1200x24bit color i think. most stable sytem running X ive ever used/seen. next to this was my old sgi indy which was up for ~90 days before the console locked up. for 3D stuff, i use nvidia. but i also compile my own kernels. so if your not prepared to do that i dont think i can reccomend nvidia's recent cards. i also only use 2.2. kernel not 2.4. my voodoo3 3000/3500 was ROCK solid under xfree3.3.6. even when playing unreal tournament almost daily. nvidia is pretty stable too, haven't had any crashes that resulted from using it. but i do have to restart X quite a bit depending on if i want to do Xvideo or OpenGL.(i do a lot of video capture) on the G400 i restart X once a month to clear up memory(it gets to about 200MB memory usage, xfree 3.3.6 choked at around 145MB memory usage) nate
