I am a newbie and thinking to build an AMD system which runs linux, I am not a big gamer, but would like to have good 3-d on my computer. Can you give me some suggestions on what video cards are good for it?
you'll probably have found this out already... but ATi Radeon is only a recent addition to Linux drivers and isn't thorough. 3dfx V5 won't be supported right because of the SLI 2-chip complications. the Kyro is rather new. I bet nvidia has linux drivers sorted out though! and if you wanted to do graphic workstation work it would be the best of them anyway.
right, if you're not going to do any gaming, the mx200 would be just fine for you. However, Matrox also has good linux drivers and much better 2d quality then the geforce2. Id personally go for the matrox g400, but the mx200 would probably sell for cheaper
A word of warning if your are a newbie installing linux is going to be interesting and updating video drivers even more so. However it's a good way to get a goof working knowlage of linux.
Nvidia's drivers are on their web site, the ones in linux are only 2d.
Linux is not a gamers platform (yet..), most 3d games will take a heavy performance hit when running under linux rather than Windows.
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