bought new graphics card because linix sucks on ATI .. aint much better

Ok after reading several posts in here i decided to buy a new graphics card for my linux HTPC but i am NOT impressed !! you all say Linux has great support for Nvidia … Compared to what ? i have been a game developer since early 90’s and i must admit im kinda disapointed the picture quality lacks compared to a Windows HTPC using ATI. Now im in a place where i feel like i threw out money because i bought a card only because of Linux – Furthermore i cant get sound via HDMI working its a Zotac GT220 with sound … Installed drivers and everything but no sound !!

I read that when it comes to a Multimedia Desktop Pc u whould choose windows … And im beginning to look that way too … I mean the reason i went from windows to OpenSuse was due to stability but OpenSuse crashes too only thing is it doesnt tell me whats wrong like Windows would do …

Even with PureVideo and what not it doesnt come close to Windows … Which i do not understand since u all say that Nvidia supports linux and makes drivers that supports all video features but why does it look so grainy and why cant it upscale so it looks decent i mean if i take a 540p and upscale it to 1080p it looks like the pixels are Commodore 64 size …

So what do i do ?

On 02/11/2011 01:36 PM, c0ola1d wrote:
> So what do i do ?

did you buy a board known to work well with Linux? if not, that is one
thing you should do.

don’t tell me you found someone you don’t know, who said that every
nVidia board is wonderful on Linux, and every single little setting
which works on windos works on linux–did you? (if so, go back to that
person and tell them they didn’t know what they were talking about,
but you believed them anyway, so give you your money back!!)

BUT before you do that: have you yet installed the proprietary driver
made by nVidia for your board?

if not see here: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for
Users http://tinyurl.com/2vsv4rh

i did the one-click last week on new 11.3 install with my old old
nVidia GeForce FX 5500 and it runs GREAT with the nvidia driver
installed so easy i couldn’t believe it!!

but, i knew it would work when i bought it…if yours doesn’t then i
suggest you put it on ebay and go out and buy one that does…

good luck…

and, btw: nice attitude…will win you a lot of help and friends
around here…


DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
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“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

This is true - Linux graphic drivers have always SIGNIFICANTLY lagged MS-Windows graphic drivers … and lagged by a SIGNIFICANT margin, … ie by 2x to 5x slower depending on the function. The site [Phoronix] Linux Hardware Reviews, Benchmarking, & Gaming](http://phoronix.com) has many posts on this topic, reviewing Linux drivers.

It I had seen your post advising you were looking to find a graphic card for Linux where you could get Linux graphic drivers with performance on par with MS-Windows graphic drivers I could have told you to stop wasting your time … they don’t exist.

This should be functioning. Its likely thou the ‘alsa’ sound driver that provides this capability and NOT a video driver. If you can’t get the sound working, write a bug report on the openSUSE version that you are using against ‘component’ sound. That will get the attention of the SuSE-GmbH sound packager, who is also a Linux sound developer and they may be able to help you.

???

I think you mean ‘vdpau’. Linux has NO PureVideo support. Instead in Linux it is called VDPAU.

Granted it is a bit difficult for graphic hardware suppliers to provide graphic drivers for Linux because there are many different distributions, and the effort to package individual drivers for each Linux distribution would be too hard. The graphic development teams nVidia, ATI, Intel have in place for creating video/graphic drivers for Linux is tiny in comparison to what is in place for MS-Windows. This is a direct illustration of the uphill battle when competing with an operating system that has a monopoly on the PC market.

DenverD Dude… I was wondering about the NVidia driver thing myself. I’ll try your advice at working on my vid card setup. It works great right now, but I’d like the tv-out to work. Thanks for the post to that pissy cola1d guy. I’ll let you know what happens. I have many things to learn with this new OS. It’s people like you who make it a wonderful time instead of smackin my head against the wall while throwing my box out the window with a beer in my hand…

Thanks

Follow this thread
Audio HDMI with Youtube issue

It is not clear if you installed the propritary NVIDIA drivers???

Also never said exactly what card it is.