It worked fine for me with my Nvidia Geforce2 MX200.. Everything except opengl worked out of the box..
-------------- Jesse Angell PalaceUnlimited.com #1 Palace Host ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ward William E DLDN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: RE: video card for RH7.3 > 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 > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
