Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I don't have the 550, but I do have the X600, and you must install the ATI proprietary drivers.
Yep. I've also found that nVidia has been better about supporting the 2D-only MIT drivers on newer cards before ATI, although ATI _has_ been better in the last Xorg release (they almost matched nVidia on cards supported by recent release date).
They do support hardware 3-D, but nothing much else besides dual monitors and TV out. Really a big waste of an expensive card for what I'm doing. You also will have problems during install if you try to use the 550.
Yeah, that's the Xorg drivers you're relying on.
Although I believe the nVidia 6200-6600 (NV43-44) aren't fully supported by the RHEL/CentOS 4 installer, and only the 6800 (NV40), although they will probably "work okay." I.e., you won't need to use the VESA installer.
The newer Xorg release from a few months adds newer NV4x support, and even some new G70 support. But that's only for 2D.
Use a common card, then drop the 550 in after installing the drivers.
The VESA installer should work, unless ATI is no longer supporting VESA BIOS Extentions (VBE) 2.0+. I haven't personally checked if the new nVidia GeForce 7800 (G70) series does, but I know all of the GeForce 6200/6600/6800 (NV4x) do.