VS: VS: Choosing video card

Opinions about:

Ati Radeon 64Mb Vivo
Geforce2 64Mb

NOTE: main use of the card is SDL development, games, multimedia, OpenGL

I would put much priority on image quality, in which Radeon beats GeForce
silly. Radeon doesn’t even come much behind in speed, sometimes is even
faster. As an added bonus, Radeon has VIVO. If you prefer your games to run
at 70 fps instead of 60, choose GeForce2. If quality is the question, choose
Radeon.

Petri Latvala
A man of lousy sarcasm

i don’t know for GeForce2, but, for Radeon, i am in big trouble
finding driver for linux/FreeBSD… (but no problem for Windows2000)

i don’t know for GeForce2, but, for Radeon, i am in big trouble
finding driver for linux/FreeBSD… (but no problem for Windows2000)

Right now the only 3d cards t hat get anything on fbsd are 3dfx cards
(using the linux compat layer and the linux libs), tnt, and g200/g400. There
is a project to write a fbsd stub for the nvidia ‘common’ driver going on
at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fbsd-nvdriver/ which will hopefully
have something functional by the end of the month. I’ve no clue what the
status for radeon is, but fbsd isn’t high on IHV’s lists to port drivers to, ms
still has market control and linux is still on a publicity high

    -Erik <@Erik_Greenwald> [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik]

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i don’t know for GeForce2, but, for Radeon, i am in big trouble
finding driver for linux/FreeBSD… (but no problem for
Windows2000)

Right now the only 3d cards t hat get anything on fbsd are 3dfx cards
(using the linux compat layer and the linux libs), tnt, and g200/g400.

I belive I saw Radeon support in the 2.4.3 Linux Kernel.

The thing one must keep in mind is that there are no video cards designed
"for" Linux/FreeBSD/BeOS/etc, Most video cards are designed for either
Windows ME or Windows 2000, with the occasional Mac version. (Of which I
recall the only difference being the Video BIOS)

(What I find funny is the fact that the Geforce3 came out on the Mac
Platform first, but the “new” features are more specific to DirectX8)

You could always buy a video card with the idea that you think you want to
use it on Windows, but are really going to use it on something else.

The thing you should know about, is that nVidia doesn’t release the source
code to their drivers, so you can forget about trying to fix any problems
you have with it under Linux.

This page is rather old, but it provides some answers:
http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/01/03/19/0357219.shtml


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