Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:34:17PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > Again, I recommend Matrox, specifically the g450, which any recent > linux supports pretty much out of the box. Watch out for the g550 though, I'm > not sure if it's supported yet. Probably will be any day now. Matrox supports

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Majewski
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video > > card you choice. Its up to the windowing manager. The window manager, eh.. I'd be curious to learn how the choice of window manager

Re: Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
David Teague wrote: >I'm running Enlightenment with Gnome 1.4. Can someone advise me >further? Good! Enlightenment is a damn fine WM. Snazzy... My personal comments - it's fine if you'll use it at home, and when you've got lots of juice like RAM and processing power. However, should you falter

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-15 Thread csj
On Thursday 15 November 2001 13:05, Patrick McFarland wrote: > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video card you > choice. Its up to the windowing manager. I presonally recommend an > ati raedon or raedon 8500, or any recent matrox card (450+ or 550). > Nvidia likes to make thei

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-15 Thread Sean
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 11:07, David Teague wrote: > > Nate suggests that the nvidia works if you compile your own kernel, > and that the Matrox G400 and voodoo 3000/3500 are quite stable. > > Anyone else care to help? > I've had a Voodoo3 2000, Matrox G400, and nVidia Geforce3 in that order. I

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-15 Thread Ax
Dne čt 15. listopad 2001 17:07 David Teague napsal(a): > I asked: > > > 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? > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick McFarland wrote: > >

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-15 Thread David Teague
I asked: > > 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? On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick McFarland wrote: > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video >

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video card you choice. Its up to the windowing manager. I presonally recommend an ati raedon or raedon 8500, or any recent matrox card (450+ or 550). Nvidia likes to make their own versions of software often making it incompatible with most

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Hanasaki JiJi said: > Didn't the manufacturer go bankrupt and get bough by nvidia? > 3dfx? yeah they did. one of my friends worked at STB.. then at 3dfx..now hes at nvidia.. still good cards though. the specs are out on them(for most of the features of the chipset) so i think support will continu

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Didn't the manufacturer go bankrupt and get bough by nvidia? nate wrote: Hanasaki JiJi said: Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nope. sorry. i looked into possibly doing that too but the driver development looked too alpha for me to even try. i got a winTV

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
Hanasaki JiJi said: > Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nope. sorry. i looked into possibly doing that too but the driver development looked too alpha for me to even try. i got a winTV PCI card instead and use that for video capture. nate

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Nate, any tips on getting the multimedia stuff to work on a 3500TV? nate wrote: 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 g4

Re: Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread nate
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

Best choice for video card

2001-11-14 Thread David Teague
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? Some seem to have trouble with NVIDIA, but my technician wants to use an nvidia TNT 2 32 MB AGP video card. Someone help an old