nv verses the world

[Patrick Boutilier]

mal wrote:
> I read a post that a guy called Alan made that the 3D video folks would 
> rather work with friendlier vendors than Nvidia. I have also noticed 
> that there is a lot of  post along the lines of  ' nv doesn't do this or 
> that' and that NVidia binary explodes with FC2.

I use nvidia with FC2. No problems here.


  All this is a bit
> depressing since I have an Nvidia card too!  I even went to the trouble 
> of building a new kernel so that the Nvidia would work, which is a bit 
> daunting for a beginner and is a real pain.  So I figured it may take 
> weeks ( if ever) for Fedora and Nvidia to play nicely together but it'll 
> only take me 20mins to go down to PCWorld and get another video card.  
> So the question is ... What is the most capable card that I can get that 
> is totally supported by GPL drivers.  I know this is really a back to 
> front way to solve this problem but I am fed up with this situation.
> 
> best wishes
> 
>