[good]Video Card Recommendations

[ted leslie]

i bought about the best nvidia for my machine (on the marktet 18 months ago).
it has a horrible bug that the accelerated playback of video,
i.e. xv or something that can be hardware scaled,
goes to "BLUE" and stays blue unless one drops out of X and comes back in
(you dont have to reboot).
It happens maybe 2-3 times a week if you say maybe view 1/2 of video.
It was so annoying as I would not normally  used to having to restart X.
(i just check today , one of my desktop regular use machines has been up 267 days, with no
reboot and no X restart), so i get used to having ssh windows, browser windows, etc stay up and stay
put for 100's of days on end, and restarting X even only twice a week or so was annoying.
So i switched to an old early ATI radeon, and it has been perfect for many months.
I googled, scowered kernel new posting, emailed, updated drivers, update kernels,
tried it on a diff mother board, no matter what, the Nvidia will blue out permanently on 
HW video playback. And i had it happen with another NV card to. And others on the news groups
have experienced it and their is know post sol'n.
So I liked the Nvidia's performance, and Nvidia has drivers out timely for new kernels,
but if you like your desktop to stay put for atleast 30+ days (to a few 100's)
and you play back video, the Nvidia could be very very  risky.
You can play back video in non-accelerated mode (once it goes blue), but that means no
realtime scaling, filters (i.e. de-interlacing which is important on tv captures).


By the way , if you decide on Nvidia ....
I have a used MSI Nvidia (chip set)  FX 5900 (8x AGP) for sale!



-tl

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:52:35 -0400
"William O'Higgins Witteman" <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> If I was buying a new video card today for a desktop machine, what
> should I buy?  I want complete support under Linux, obviously, and
> preferably an Open Source driver rather than a 3rd-party binary.
> 
> Most importantly, it should be able to show movies without bogging down
> too much, but otherwise I'm not looking for much in the way of
> performance.  Reading text in a terminal is not too challenging, after
> all.  Thanks.
> -- 
> 
> yours,
> 
> William
> 
> 
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