Video Card Recommendations

[Tyler Aviss]

And as a side note, the nouveau (FOSS) Nvidia drivers do seem to be getting
better over time, and that does tend to support the older cards including 3D
acceleration. My primary beef is that it has issues with certain funky
resolutions that the old closed-source driver was ok with... but still
better legacy support than ATI (though they have improved nicely on newer
stuff since the AMD acquisition)

On 2011-01-03 2:04 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:44:45AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> So, the consensus seem...
Nvidia has linux drivers for all of them.  Now whether your distribution
has packages for a new enough one for a brand new card is always a
potential issue, but usually not for very long.

Now some very old nvidia cards are only supported in legacy drivers these
days, and the oldest legacy driver (the 71.xx driver) no longer works with
current Xorg versions, but the 96.xx driver does, as do all newer ones.

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