Re: [LUG] general hardware question?

[William Fidell <william@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Hall wrote:
> Either way, to start you off I would recommend Nvidia as the graphics 
> card choice.  Although I'm sure others will have found ATI to work 
> adequately, I found my old ATI card to be a nightmare, whereas Nvidia 
> provide (via download) a Universal driver that will run all the modern 
> Nvidia cards in (their website claims) all versions of Linux. :)  Also 
> Nvidia motherboards have a driver set you can download specifically for 
> Linux too.

Could not agree more about the graphics card.  Unless you can absolutely 
guarantee that the ati graphics card will work with Linux I would go 
with something else.  My ATI works but not to its full capacity, and 
when installing (FC2) I hard to use a whole load of boot options to turn 
off a lot features to even get it to install.  Unfortunately, I can't 
remember what those options are, which is putting me off from upgrading 
to FC3

When I did try installing the ATI rpm driver that they provide it didn't 
work.  Then again it might be just me not knowing what I was doing.

Wills

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