From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GkmOx-0003C1-Sk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:55:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAGIobdt017909; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:50:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAGIkxZa030922 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:59 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A14652F2 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.557 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.557 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.042, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vz9FiF4p-VfK for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0187364ABD for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GkmFG-0001fu-Jl for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:45:55 +0100 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:45:54 +0100 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:45:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable? Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060910) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 12d2567a-6aa5-431d-8d3c-a854a0342c60 X-Archives-Hash: a9e16eaef983dc6bbc97e3467a828129 Hello, I'm looking at this NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX for a gentoo based gaming system. Anyone have any experience with this card (or a similar card) and any of the open source drivers? Maybe just use the nvidia drivers? I've googled my fingers off, but, I'm more confused about which card to purchase than before. I'm not very experienced with Graphics Accellerations issue under Linux/X so any help or comments are most appreciated. I did find this excellent resource for bencharks and stabiltiy of all sorts of video cards: http://freestone-group.com/video-card-stability-test/benchmark-results.html http://freestone-group.com/video-card-stability-test/ I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance and open source drivers. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list