Re: [Sheflug] Happy new year... and video cards :-)

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<puts bottle of whisky/neipce/tatties down on table><adjusts glasses 
whilst looking at the piper playing a lament on the other side of the 
room>

Chris

> Happy new year all,

Yes.  Lets hope it's a good one.  It'll soon be time for the annual 
Burns night supper[1] in the Hillborough Hotel.

> I'm looking for something that at least supports 3D and OpenGL, and
> preferably isn't nVidia (mostly due to limited support in open
> source code and an otherwise potentially problematic driver
> supplied by nVidia themselves).

Oh... gawd I was hoping someone wasn't going to mention this over the 
Christmas period :)

>  From doing some poking around, the ATI Radeon's seem to be a
> fairly good choice[1], but does anyone have any experience one way
> or the other, or any alternatives?

ATI would seem to be good but I've not used it for some years now.

> The whole nVidia avoidance goes to the mainboard as well as I've
> read problems or lack of full support for the nForce chipset,
> including not being able to get sound.

Yes.  This is true.  I've got an old Nvidia Riva TNT2 card working on 
my Kubuntu 6.10 desktop but it was like arguing with something from 
hell to get it going due to the fact that even an extensive Google 
search didn't reveal too much.  I eventually got it going with Debian 
legacy drivers.  Even that was tough.

> Any experience/recommendations on hardware welcome...

Oh... I dunno.  Tried a sizable hammer over the head ?  It wasn't 
always like this.  When I used SuSE 8.xx to 9.xx everything worked 
just fine.

> Cheers and enjoy tonight :-)

Hopefully :)

> Chris...
> [1]<http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.comp.os.linux/browse_frm/th
>read/bd00939a32deedb2/25c0724257b9cd55>

Thank goodness for Google.  Something which didn't exist before 
ShefLUG or GNU/Linux came along.

-- 
Richard
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
ISBN 1-85501-152-2

"Address to a Haggis....

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftan o' the puddin-race!
Aboon then a' ye tak your place,
		Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
		As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill, 
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
		In time o' need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
		Like amber bead."

Right.... where's that bottle of scotch gone to .....

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