Video Card for Linux

[Garra]

Hi, i am thinking on buying a new card, for Linux and Windows.
Want the best gaming and iq available, no matter the cost.

What would you recommend?
thanks!

 

[nicowju]

my guess would be one of hte high-end NVidia's... they seem to have adequate driver support. I've got a Hercules DDR-DVI (geforce 1) in my Linux computer and it works fine for the most part

 

[Damascus]

Geforce3 Ti 500!

 

[Menacer]

I know nVidia's cards have good first-party driver support straight from nVidia.

But a guy I know who's into the open source scene says ATi is more helpful for third party driver makers. It's really up to you whether you trust the open source guys or nVidia's driver team.

 

[Rand]

GF3 Ti500 or ATi Radeon 8500.
Both are extremely fast with the edge going towards the Ti500, with the Radeon having the slightly better feature set.
Drivers are very good for both the Radeon and GeForce under Linux, though I've heard the open source scence tends to prefer ATi in that respect.

 

[BlvdKing]

Get NVidia, I have a GF3 Ti 200 and Mandrake 8 installed and getting my games to work was a breeze. NVidia drivers for Linux are top notch, and the two RPMs needed to install the drivers work and are a snap to install. I toiled for weeks to get my Radeon to work, which never happened. It may be better now, but save yourself the headache and get something that is known to work easily in Linux - NVidia.

 

[Pongpan]

Radeon 8500 has bot been supported by XFree86.

 

[BlvdKing]

I think the Radeon was supported as of XFree86 4.1.0. I don't know about the 8500 though. As for support, I think NVidia is far better. The Linux drivers are available on NVidia's webpage right next to the windows drivers. I don't think that's the case with ATI's site. In fact, I don't think ATI officially supports Linux.

 

[AA0]

ATI does support linux, but they don't provide drivers. What they do is provide information to the people that wirte the drivers. A windows user might think this sucks, but a linux user far prefers this, its just the nature of open source. nVidia isn't liked in the open source community at all.

 

[Damascus]

<< ATI does support linux, but they don't provide drivers. What they do is provide information to the people that wirte the drivers. A windows user might think this sucks, but a linux user far prefers this, its just the nature of open source. nVidia isn't liked in the open source community at all. >>



Damned politics. Fact is the nvidia drivers are probably better than the ATI ones.
(just as in the Windows world)

 

[Rand]

<<

<< ATI does support linux, but they don't provide drivers. What they do is provide information to the people that wirte the drivers. A windows user might think this sucks, but a linux user far prefers this, its just the nature of open source. nVidia isn't liked in the open source community at all. >>



Damned politics. Fact is the nvidia drivers are probably better than the ATI ones.
(just as in the Windows world) >>



I don't know, personally I rather doubt it. The open source community has always loved ATi, and the support they've given to the open source community by providing all of the information openly needed to write drivers. nVidia has never been too popular with the open source movement as they tend to be pretty closed and private with the drivers and havent let the open source community write any drivers for it- everything must come straight from nVidia.

ATi has always been first to be supported under Linux, since they provide the driver source openly so it stands to reason ATi would probably be more reliable under Linux.

 

[BlvdKing]

That's BS. I had my GF2 MX working (and playing 3D games) long before my Radeon in Linux. If ATI was so great at providing support, then why was 3D on the Radeon only working as of 5 - 6 months ago? I don't care if the drivers aren't opensourced, as long as they work fairly easily.