[lug] PCI video card that "just works" with FC10?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:51:45 -0600
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> A dissenting opinion.
> 
> I have no problem with those who want to stick with foss-supported
> cards, but I'm a died in the wool nVidia fan. Also, I avoid ATI cards
> like the plague. I still remember the time about 2 years ago when
> there was no way for ??? number of months months to run an ATI card
> under a current kernel. Maybe the drivers have improved. All of our
> Dell and HP desktops at work have buitltin ATI cads, and they are pure
> crap - especially on rhel4. The most recent drivers are a little
> better, but they still tend to lock up with any of the fancier
> xscreensavers and/or when shifting too/from X and a CTL-AL_Fn console.
> And when I say lockup, I mean push the power button time.

Just to point out: CentOS4/RHEL4 came out in March of 2005. 
While I am sure they have backported support for some new cards, a
great deal of development has taken place in 4 years. :) 

kevin
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