[clug] Video Cards for Linux

[Telek, John]

If you have an AGP slot, I'll give you a GF4 440 MX for free, with TV
out.

  John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Petts [mailto:ipetts at ozemail.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:53 PM
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: [clug] Video Cards for Linux


I picked up a second hand PIII at one of the computer fairs a few months
ago, to replace my aging PII.

I've stuck DVD-ROM in it that I had lying around and set about trying to
watch an R1 DVD I got from Amazon a while back (I don't have a DVD
player as such, just a [strictly R4] PS2).

The thing was kinda' watchable, but somewhat jerky and dropped a lot of
frames. I didn't think much more of it.

Then, a week or two ago a friend of mine sent me an Intel 7xx
(something-or-other, not near it at the moment) card that I stuck in,
and lo and behold, the DVD played just great; no noticeable dropped
frames, no lip-sync problems, too cool. I noticed later though that X
was running REALLY slowly. Moving windows around seemed to be a problem
for this card, and even scrolling text in my browser, I could literally
see the refresh moving down the screen.

So it seems that the Intel whatever card is a dog for running X.

I have scoured the net, Googled for ages, but can't seem to find any
recommendations for decent video cards under Linux. I don't play games
much, and only really want something that will let me use X at a
reasonable speed and use mplayer (or Xine, or anything) to watch the
DVDs. I've read on the mplayer site that they flatly refuse to even talk
to people with nVidia cards, so I guess they're out :) I'm running
Fedora Core 1 on this box, btw.

Can someone please recommend a good, reasonably priced card, preferably
under about $100, for use with Linux? A pointer as to where I might find
one locally would also be helpful.

Thanks,
Ian.

-- 
My horse got shot, so I had to break his leg



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