MJ Ray wrote:
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Hi list, Has anyone any experience in using an nVidia GeForce 2MX graphics card with Debian?
I think I've had one of those working fine in 2d with XFree86 3.x using the svga binary, or 4.x using the nv driver. Both can be configured as you install xserver-svga or xserver-xfree86, respectively, or using dpkg-reconfigure afterwards.
3d support is still non-free and not recommended. If you want good 3d, these are not the cards that you are looking for.</obi-wan>
but they are if you want to play games.... so you have a problematic choice if games are what floats your boat.
You can buy a GFX card that has open specs and 3d support in Linux, but you can't play Unreal tournament 2003 (Nvidia are the only people who support the necessary 3d extensions atm, ATI have said possibly/maybe (which imho means never) but it isn't here yet) and probably not Unreal 2 or Doom III when they come out, and you will not be getting the best performance for things like Return to Castle Wolfenstein etc.
So this brings you to scenario 2 where you buy a card which has great open Linux support but every time you want to play a game you have to reboot to the evil empire.
rock, hard place... no Unreal Tournament 2003!
:-/
Adam