[CS-FSLUG] Re: Suse 9.2 and 3d vid boards...

[timbrown at ichristian.com]

Thanks Nigel and Fred:

I checked the Suse database and found a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 that   is supposed 
to work fine (on ebay) for $56. It's a PNY card. I was looking at a 5200 I 
believe but the ones I saw were being sold by new ebayers or other similar 
things. 

If I remember right, it's a 64 MB card, and while that isn't as big as I'd 
like, it'll do for now. I got an 865prelx Intel MoBo and 512 MB of ram with 
an Intel P4 2  GHZ chip. I don't think I came out too bad. I'm  building 
this for my son in Fla. If it works out I'll send it to him and build an 
identical one for myself...so if Suse has issues, theoretically I'll have 
the same hardware here. 

Thanks again, 

Tim 


N. Thompson writes: 

> I have a GeForce FX 5200, I don't know whether its affordable or not but it 
> seems well enough supported, the only thing that doesn't work in Linux yet is 
> the video input and thats only important if he plans to use it for video 
> editing. 
> 
> I've found in SUSE if I can't get 3d working I just need to go to the updates 
> section and reinstall the fetchnvidia update, that will take care of 
> installing the driver and running SaX2 will make setting up 3d support easy. 
> The only thing I've noticed about SUSE is that I've had to install the driver 
> more times then with other distributions but I can't explain why. 
> 
> On January 24, 2005 08:58 pm, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
>> Hello all: 
>>
>> Just wondering; I'm constructing a new system for my son. Just wondering
>> what might be a good buy for a 3d vid board that Suse gets along with
>> really well. Fast but not incredibly expensive. He's going to be doing some
>> graphics work in school...computer science major. 
>>
>> Thanks, 
>>
>> Tim 
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