What brand/kind of video card should I get for maximum capatability?

[RightNow]

I have a $129 Fry’s special that I run Fedora 5 on and it works great, but I want to put an AGP video card in it. I won’t be running 3D games or anything like that, I just want a better screen resolution and take the strain off from the processor. My budget is around $25. I can get one with a rebate or a used on ebay for that price.

What do you recommend? What is most compatible with Fedora 5? Nvidia, ATI or other?


Thanks!

RightNow

[d3viant]

If you can find an intel card, I would probably go for that one - most intel graphics drivers are integrated into FC5. If you can't get an intel card, go nvidia, their drivers currently work a lot better than ATI's do.

[TjaBBe]

If you can find an intel card, I would probably go for that one - most intel graphics drivers are integrated into FC5. If you can't get an intel card, go nvidia, their drivers currently work a lot better than ATI's do.

Yeah worked great, but unfortunately I believe Livna has stopped porting the Nvidia drivers, and I heard of people having problems while using Nvidia's native drivers with Fedora...

[pparks1]

I vote for Nvidia still. I have an FX5200 which you can get for you budget and it works far better straight outta the box than the integrated S3 Unichrome chipset on my mobo.

[hollywoodb]

My laptop came with integrated Intel 915 graphics chip.... In my desktop I have an NVidia FX5600 256MB.

I've had good performance (wouldn't throw Doom 3 at it) and a lot less fuss with my Intel chip... Also, I'm running X.org 7.1 on FC6test2, and the X.org-supplied 'intel' driver (replaces 'i810') in my case offers a little better performance and more features. So I vote for Intel :D

NVidia could go both ways, some people have a lot of problems with different driver versions... I haven't had any issues, but at the same time I like that fact that Intel is making an honest effort to advance their products in the open-source arena.

http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_3-6103941.html

[hiberphoptik]

the people who have problems using the nvidia drivers from the nvidia site are not having problems because of the nvidia drivers, they are having problems because they are missing things the drivers require, or they try to install them in runlevel 5 or various other small things

I have been using the official nvidia drivers from the nvidia site since you had to DL the two tarballs and compile them manually all the way to the current drivers and FC5, never had any issues with any of the nvidia cards I have used (gforce2 thru 7800)

but as the OP posted they arent interested in games, so any cheap modern card should give a good resolution for desktop performance

[TjaBBe]

the people who have problems using the nvidia drivers from the nvidia site are not having problems because of the nvidia drivers, they are having problems because they are missing things the drivers require, or they try to install them in runlevel 5 or various other small things

I have been using the official nvidia drivers from the nvidia site since you had to DL the two tarballs and compile them manually all the way to the current drivers and FC5, never had any issues with any of the nvidia cards I have used (gforce2 thru 7800)

but as the OP posted they arent interested in games, so any cheap modern card should give a good resolution for desktop performance

I was a bit surprised anyway when I read random complains of people about the official drivers "not working" because they indeed did work perfectly for me when I was using Debian...

I'll give them a try at Fedora soon then :D.

[hollywoodb]

about the nvidia/ati proprietary drivers, read this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=420876