Video Cards et. al.

[Jerry Feldman]

Since I upgraded to SuSE 6.3, I have been having some troubles with my graphics card, and I think I finally tracked it down. I have a 4M ATI Mach64 AGP. The problem appears to be related to the Vesa frame buffer. I put in an 8M xpert98 PCI (which causes an IRQ conflict), and the problems I had been obsering went away.  SuSE 6.3 uses XFree86 3.3.5. I don't generally play video games on my Linux system, but I want to upgrade to a good board, and I would like some recommendations. I may go to the KGP show tomorrow.

Because of the lack of IRQs, I will need an AGP based board. 
Chistoph recommended a VooDoo.  I was just checking some prices for comparison (Linux.com):
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 W/TV Out AGP $146.
Diamond Stealth  S540 32MB 4x Savage 4 Pro $94
Diamond Viper V770 AGP 4X 32MB NVIDIA TNT $124.
ATI All In Wonder 128 16MB AGP $178., 32MB $245.

I have not checked other online resources, but I would like opinions pro/con. 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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