What is the best gaming card for Linux?
 

Which of these is the most stable grafics card and best to install to Linux?

-Tommi

My NV GeForce3 Ti200 is stable, and the driver installation is just one self-extractor script and a simple change to your XF86Config-4 file.

Yep, its nVidia. I am convinced of this now.

-Tommi

Yes get an nVidia card,... best that you can reasonably afford. nVidia driver support is the best in the industry. Only ATI comes close and they are still a little lackluster in my opinion.

I agree that nVidia is currently the best...
I had an old Sis6326 and had all sorts of problems with my tv tuner. When I switched it for a GeForce 2 MX 400, all my problems magically went away! :)

Not sis. I have a 740 and they don't have any drivers for it so it goes as a generic VESA and is so slow.

My sis had a driver, but the X server wouldn't run unless I set the video memory to 4Mb instead of 8Mb (the boards memory)...

Oh, well... Now I don't have to worry about that anymore... :)

Based on my own experience I would recommend the nVidia video, but I am not so sure about nVidia chipsets...

My mobo has both built in, I could upgrade the graphics but I'm stuck with the sound/ether drivers.

If only it were the other way round...

I did have an SiS730-based PC Chips 810LMR card before. I have to say that if speed was not your problem, I would recommend it for non-game use. It's solid and recent Linuxes seem to love it.

DAVE

There are compatibilty/stability issues with the Nvidia nforce chipsets, I can't remember exactly but it was to do with the actual implementation of the chip. Some of the geforce fx chipsets have minor issues as well, the fx5900 in particular if my memory serves me right, other than that the Nvidia stuff is solid - a while back the cooling fan on my geforce3 ti200 card packed up, but I didn't notice until about a month later when I took my box appart, until then I'd been playing 3d games with the heatsink at nearly 100 deg centigrade without any signs of it becoming unstable.

-Taiyo

I never would dare to buy nVidia motherboard...its a too new thing for them. Intel is for this purpose, it makes graficscards, this nVidia.

-Tommi

matrox!
 

They provide documentation and the only ones to SUPPORT LINUX properly.

Today I gave up with Linux. Perhaps Nvidia didnt work with me...who knows? I think I did everything I could...but Linux was more unstable than windows. :-)

Back to windows...

-Tommi

Noooo! Don't do it!
 

Tell me (and everyone else here!) what's wrong and we'll get it sorted! I did!

At least for me Nvidia 3D is *WAY* more stable under linux than it was in windoze....

-Taiyo