[aklug] Re: nvida graphics card

On Friday 22 October 2010 13:38:16 Tim Johnson wrote:
> FYI: I'm a programmer and have used linux steadily for 10 years, but
> am not so knowledgeable about hardware, so am soliciting input.
>
> I have had Gateway GT5422E for 3 years. It has an on(mother)board
> nvidia graphics chipset with 128 meg of shared memory. I have 3
> gig of RAM.
>
> I've used slackware 13.0 and 13.1 on this box and either slack has
> run like a charm. However performance with ubuntu and kubuntu has
> never been satisfactory to me.
>
> I'm looking at graphics cards at :
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field
>-keywords=video+card+pci-express+nvidia+8300&x=0&y=0 and one in particular
> at
> http://www.amazon.com/nVidia-GeForce-9500GT-PCI-Express-ZT-95TEK2M-FSL/dp/B
>002Q5PXA4/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287776407&sr=1-1-fkmr3 I'd welcome
> comments.
>
> I have been advised to stick with nvidia by a hardware geek, and
> I've googled some info that indicates that ratheons have been
> problematic with ubuntu.
>
> TIA

I use Nvidia and can say it works great here. I use quadro cards dual dvi ouptuts.
I do use the Nvidia binary from the vendor but I think that both ubuntu & debian
have packages that manage the same binary.

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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