Ryan Oertel wrote: >I'm looking to put a new graphics card into my linux box for gaming. >I've currently got an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz (ASUS MoBo) w/ 512M RAM and a >ATI Radeon VE QY (according to lspci.) Games which should run nicely >are choppy at best and unplayable at worst. They play the same under >XP, too. > >So, I'm wondering what experiences the TCLUG community has had with >linux and gaming with regards to video cards. Nvidia seems to provide >the linux community with drivers and support. I'm looking for a video >card which has a DVI output, but also looking to not break the bank >with these $300 cards. I've found the "PNY GeForce FX 5700 LE Optima >128MB AGP Graphics Card" to be a nice middle ground and am wondering >if anybody out there has any testimonials for me. Does the card >perform? Was it easy to install the drivers, or will I have to >recompile the whole OS? How about stability: does it lock up the >system when put to the test? I've had bad luck with my existing card >that certain GL modes will lock the system up hard (ctrl+alt+del >doesn't even work.) > >Any help is appreciated. > >-Ryan > DOOM 3 runs great on my NVIDIA FX 5600 in windows and Linux. The drivers are easy to install: emerge nvidia-glx edit xorg.conf and modules autoload to call the 'nvidia' driver/module. done. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list