Which video card for a Linux system?

[AMDPwred]

I'm building a new Linux box and I need a cheapo video card. Won't play games on the system. I just want it to be able to display 1024x768x32 and be AGP. Any recommendations?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

nvidia cards have great drivers, so any nvidia card, also matrox cards have great driver support, and i'm not really sure about ATI's support.

basically, almost any card that can do 1024x768x24(32) in windows, and isnt some generic ass thing, can probably do it in linux.

 

[smp]

I don't know how far along Nvidia's support for linux goes. I do hear that Matrox cards work great with linux and ATI too.
AFAIK of course.. and IMHO of course 🙂

 

[AMDPwred]

I was thinking something along the lines of a GF2 MX. How much are those running these days?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

with nvidia's drivers you can actually game at a similar fps as in windows, but also they are closed source.

not sure how much gf2mx's are, check newegg and/or the FS/FT forum 🙂 should be pretty cheap

 

[Soccerman]

I know ATi lets the Open Source community do their drivers for Linux. so far they've done well with the Radeon (I have Mandrake 8.1). I've only run one game that's 3D and it's included with Mandrake.. I think it's TuxRacer or something like that. it ran fine.

nVidia also does drivers for linux, though I've never kept track of how often they're updated for Linux... nor do I know how well they perform now. it's been a while since I've seen a Linux vs Windows comparison for performance in a GFX card..

as for the others I don't know.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i ran my geforce2 gts in linux with the nvidia proprietary drivers the performance was great (although a bit unstable but only because my chipset had issues that nvidia couldn't solve) and the support was the best every nvidia product (even their nforce chipset) is supported in linux with nvidia drivers (updated atleast with each new product release) so on that end they are great. even the new geforce3's run fine in linux
easy install too

i ran an ati rage 128 aiw in linux as well it ran perfect and was extremely stable xfree86 and the open source community maintains their drivers with no real programing help from ati so if you like the idea of having all gpl on your system this is a plus
the only bad thing about accelerated support is that you won't expect to get a new card working with games or antialiasing or anything takes atleast 6 months so a radeon 8500 prob wouldn't run

i also ran a voodoo5 5500 card in linux the support for that basically was non-existant only found a few red hat rpm's and a lot of voodoo3 stuff and once i got the voodoo5 working it was only using one chip on the board so the performance was really lame so stay away from a voodoo5

never tryed matrox or anything else but hear they are real good (prob cause they are used a lot in production environments with their dual displays and so forth and a lot of those systems run linux) i would expect them to run/have support just as good if not better than ati cards


overall i would recommend an nvidia card if you are also going to be using it in windows and want a good performing recently new card
ati and matrox are alright too but you might have trouble getting their newest stuff supported right out of the hanger