Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-08 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 07 January 2005 18:23, Dave Nebinger wrote: Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. Here's the basic requirements: 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( 2. Completely

[gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. Here's the basic requirements: 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( 2. Completely compatible and dependable with the 2.6+ series of kernels. 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave Nebinger wrote: Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. I need to get a new card that will be more compatible with Gentoo Linux. Here's the basic requirements: 1. PCI based (as the nvidia is using agp and it's onboard :-( 2. Completely compatible and dependable with the 2.6+ series of

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
What kind of nVidia card do you have? I've got a Matrox G400 here which would be fine for your needs, and I'm willing to trade/barter. Output of cfg2html.sh: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Not a joke or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. I need to get a new card that will

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Dave Nebinger
Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. It's just too darn unstable.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:13 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just too darn unstable. The only kernel module I could get working with the card was a locally-compiled version built from the drivers from nvidia.com. The latest version from nvidia won't work at all, I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Sanders
Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're having. It's just too darn unstable. The only kernel module I could get

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Seeking recommendation for new graphics card...

2005-01-07 Thread Brant Katkansky
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:13 -0500, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need for any nvidia binary driver.