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Pointless ideology?Pointless ideology?Posted Sep 2, 2004 21:52 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)In reply to: Pointless ideology? by einstein Parent article: Pointless ideology? For ppc et al, nvidia is not a good choice now Yet several models of PowerMac ship with nVidia cards (the high end ships ATI). Guess I'm out of luck if I want to try Linux on them. one nvidia driver supports all nvidia cards [on x86] You may be right about Quadro, GeForce and TNT2 cards -- although I can't comment on the quality of the drivers. But for Riva and TNT (not TNT2) cards, see http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers and note that only old versions of Windows, BeOS, and OS/2 are supported. (The OS/2 driver also supports Vanta and TNT2.)
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Pointless ideology? Posted Sep 2, 2004 22:11 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] But for Riva and TNT (not TNT2) cards, see http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers and note that only old versions of Windows, BeOS, and OS/2 are supported. (The OS/2 driver also supports Vanta and TNT2.)Ah, so the most ancient nvidia cards are not covered by their unified driver? my mistake, I thought that was the case, but apparently the tnt 2 are the oldest supported cards. Then again, don't the riva and tnt cards work in 2D? If I were looking for 3D support on linux, I wouldn't start with an ancient riva or tnt - tnt 2s are available online for $16, or if you want a good older 3D card with open source drivers, voodoo 3s are still available quite cheaply if you know where to look.
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