What does REDHAT recomend for 3D video card?

[Jay Turner]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:47:37PM -0600, Stephan Schutter wrote:
> I have got the impression that RH does not respect NVidia much because
> they will not give their code away... and well... sometimes there are
> issues with the RedHat kernels and nvidia (sometimes they are compiled
> with a different compiler than the one that is distributed with the
> system?). Soooooo.... The big question: What video card am I supposed to
> use?  What DOES RedHat recommend?

Just to clarify here a bit.  While it is true that Red Hat isn't fond of
the nVidia code as a result of it being closed-source, there's more to the
story than that.  Since nVidia won't open up their drivers, it makes it
very difficult for our technical support folks to  debug any issues which
customers end up having and reporting.  We've had quite a few issues which
have been caused by the nVidia driver being loaded on a customer's system,
and since we can't see the internals of the driver, the best that we can
offer to our customers is, "Well, everything is working without the nVidia
code loaded, so don't use it and your problems go away."

- jkt

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