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Author:  grante [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:26 am ]
Post subject:  Recommendations for PCI NVidia 6200 card?
I'm shopping for an HDTV, and I'll need a new video card to
drive it. I plan on driving the TV at its native resolution
of 1366x768. I'll probably start out with VGA, but DVI/HDMI
needs to be an option as well.

My on-board ATI 9100 would probably be up to the task if the
driver supported XvMC, but it doesn't. [I suppose with the
recent news that AMD is going to open up ATI video drivers
and/or specs, there's a faint home that someday there will be
XvMC support for ATI under Linux, but I'm not waiting.]

My MythTV box has a single PCI slot and no AGP slot. From what
I can tell an NVidia 6200 is the obvious choice, but NVidia has
more flavors of 6200 than Baskin-Robbins has of ice-cream.

Anybody care to make any recommendations for a PCI 6200 card?

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Grant
Author:  grante [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:55 am ]
Post subject: 
It looks like the choice for PCI bus board boils down to 64-bit vs. 128-bit video memory bus.
Author:  grante [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Recommendations for PCI NVidia 6200 card?
grante wrote:
My on-board ATI 9100 would probably be up to the task if the
driver supported XvMC, but it doesn't. [I suppose with the
recent news that AMD is going to open up ATI video drivers
and/or specs, there's a faint home that someday there will be
XvMC support for ATI under Linux, but I'm not waiting.]


I just found out that I'm wrong. There's no hope for xvmc
support (or even using the fglrx driver at all). ATI stopped
supporting the 9100 some time ago. The rat-bastards abandoned
that board less than 18-months after I bought it.

There is no flgrx driver available for R5F27 that will work
with ATI 9200 series and older boards. There are retail ATI
9200 series boards still being sold today for which ATI doesn't
have Linux drivers available unless you're running old versions
of both kernel and Xorg.

OTOH, I've got 6-year old NVidia card that's still completely
supported under the latest kernel and Xorg versions. I'll
never willingly use another ATI product again. I don't care if
they open up the driver and give away the boards...
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