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I recently bought an fx5200 for $55, and it works perfectly. You have |
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to emerge the unstable version of nVidia drivers to get them working |
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on the more recent kernel versions. I have 2.6.12 kernel, and the |
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latest stable nVidia compiles and works without any problems. |
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On 12/12/05, John C. Shimek <jcshimek@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I am running 64bit Gentoo (of course) and looking at upgrading video |
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> cards. I have an ATI 8500LE right now. I have that working ok I am |
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> having one problem. I am trying to use learn Blender. It crashes at a |
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> certain point due to a bug in Mesa. There is a bug report for this and |
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> it has been fixed upstream in Mesa 6.3. I have 6.2 and since that seems |
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> to be bundled in with Xorg, I think, I don't know how to upgrade to a |
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> newer Mesa. I have tried the Modular Xorg (with Mesa 6.4) but |
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> xorg-server won't build. I went back to the latest stable one. I then |
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> tried the ati-drivers. It compiles, I get direct rendering but X |
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> crashes and complains about unknown symbols. |
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> I am think I just want to get a new card, mine is 4 years old. I am |
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> thinking nVidia. I am wondering what is good in the 100-200USD range? |
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> And how good is the support for amd64? \ |
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> Thank you |
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> John C. Shimek |
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