Sam Drinkard <sam at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)