By "Work out of the Box", I'm assuming that means you got X Working out of the box? Just having text on the screen "Out of the Box" isn't what I think he meant, and it definitely isn't what I meant.
I had text, but until I added the kernal patch from NVIDIA, anything else graphical core dumped or was unable to be properly configured. YMMV. I started with RH 6.0 and have upgraded to 7.3 (via 6.2, 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 along the way). 7.2 and before did work out of the box with my GF2 MX-200, though, but he's asking about 7.3, which >DID NOT< and deleted the 7.2 driver and config files. As for the ATI part, I agree; I haven't had any issues out of the box with any ATI card. I guess then my advice for him is to avoid the issue entirely and get a RADEON 7500 or 8500. Bill Ward > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerry Doris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: video card for RH7.3 > > > > > NVIDIA based cards won't work "out of the box", but will work (and > > well!) once you follow the guidelines on NVIDIA's website. > > > > I've had a lot of success with ATI cards in Linux working out of > > the box, though. > > > > Bill Ward > > (Running a Chaintech GF-2 MX200 and a ATI Radeon 7500 (was > > an ATI XPert98) under 7.3) > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:27 AM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: video card for RH7.3 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am looking for a "good" video card that works out of the box > >> on RH7.3. What about A Forsa, Chaintech or ASUS, Nvidia > >> geforce II type > >> of card? > >> > >> Thanks for your comments. Any suggestion are welcomed. > >> > >> Dominic Mitchell > > My nvidia cards DO work right out of the box on Redhat. However, they > aren't being used any near their full capabilities without using the > nvidia kernel patches. Redhat don't support the nvidia > patches since the > code is proprietary...if something goes wrong Redhat will request you > revert back to the standard kernel before providing support > (this has been > beaten to death many times on the list). > I believe that the Redhat folks think highly of the ATI cards though. > > Gerry > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
