Short version:
Are there some graphics cards that work better with Gentoo than others with a basic run of the mill home system (AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ processor and 1024 MB of RAM)? I want crisp text and enough 3D acceleration for the kids to play some of the games like Tux Racer and GL Billards.
Longer version:
I've been using Linux for 4+ years, but, not being a computer professional of any sort, I have been hesitant to try Gentoo. However, it seems many of the main distros are getting as unstable as Windows, probably because I have no clue how to optimize them.
So, my Gentoo CDs are on the way, and I am going to do it right once.
Before I do, though, I'm going to put in a new graphics card. My current one is about 4 years old, and, I think, unusual. It's a VooDoo 4500, but most distros like SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu want to make it a VooDoo 5000. I think this is why I get vastly different performance.
With Lycoris, for example, I often get spontaneous reboots of the X-Server, see ghosting when moving windows and scrolling web pages and have screen savers lock the X server. I also got this with SuSe and newer versions of Mandrake but not Fedora or older versions of Slackware and Mandrake.
With some distros my screen savers are slow and lock and/or certain games that need 3D hardware acceleration (even though I have it enabled) either say it isn't or run slow as snail snot, while with other distos with the same hardware I have no problems. (With some distros I also get a mouse cursor that seems to have a mind of its own.)
So:
Are there some graphics cards that work better with Gentoo than others with a basic run of the mill home system (AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ processor and 1024 MB of RAM)? I want crisp text and enough 3D acceleration for the kids to play some of the games like Tux Racer and GL Billards.
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