Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Burak Serdar <bserdar@××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Video cards
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:19:49
Message-Id: 9a4767260512122017s7c5408c5weba8aca6e90fa7f4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Video cards by "John C. Shimek"
1 I recently bought an fx5200 for $55, and it works perfectly. You have
2 to emerge the unstable version of nVidia drivers to get them working
3 on the more recent kernel versions. I have 2.6.12 kernel, and the
4 latest stable nVidia compiles and works without any problems.
5
6 On 12/12/05, John C. Shimek <jcshimek@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > I am running 64bit Gentoo (of course) and looking at upgrading video
8 > cards. I have an ATI 8500LE right now. I have that working ok I am
9 > having one problem. I am trying to use learn Blender. It crashes at a
10 > certain point due to a bug in Mesa. There is a bug report for this and
11 > it has been fixed upstream in Mesa 6.3. I have 6.2 and since that seems
12 > to be bundled in with Xorg, I think, I don't know how to upgrade to a
13 > newer Mesa. I have tried the Modular Xorg (with Mesa 6.4) but
14 > xorg-server won't build. I went back to the latest stable one. I then
15 > tried the ati-drivers. It compiles, I get direct rendering but X
16 > crashes and complains about unknown symbols.
17 >
18 > I am think I just want to get a new card, mine is 4 years old. I am
19 > thinking nVidia. I am wondering what is good in the 100-200USD range?
20 > And how good is the support for amd64? \
21 >
22 > Thank you
23 > John C. Shimek
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