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 found the Voodoo3 to have very good 2D support and quality, and once I managed to get GLide to work right the 3D was okay for most things. The setup worked out of the box for 2D, 3D was a bit of a hassle to get working. The Matrox G400 had very good 2D and 3D support and quality. The only thing I had to do to get 3D acceleration was to recompile the kernel, building the G400 DRI module. It wasn't the fastest 3D card in the world, but things like Quake3 were certainly playable. Currently I'm using an nVidia Geforce3. The 2D and 3D is well supported and of high quality ... not to mention very fast. To get 3D hardware support, all I had to do was apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx. From there it's an easy compile of the kernel module. I recently helped a friend install Debian on his system. He was running a TNT2 video card. I went through the same routine as I had with my Geforce3, and everything went fine. I hope this is of some interest/help. Also, I am a firm believer that you should compile your own kernel. It's a very easy process, so long as you know what hardware you have in your box .... something you really should know anyway, IMO. Sean -- GPG Public Key available: http://nimh.freeshell.org/gpg_key.txt
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