Sigh , I wanted to support AMD, hence bought Gigabyte ATI 4650, however
-- laggy in centos, even is text content
-- black screen with ubuntu 9 live CD (installation CD) (intended to reinstall to ubuntu 9)
-- it looks ubuntu is sensitive ot ATI chipset. (had same experience with ATI 3450, which is not stable drived me to replace ATI3450)
no choice have to switch to nvidia, thanks to the shop to allow me to exchange to nvidia 9600GT.
-- wasting me 1 day time
plug it onto motherboard, everything goes smoothly.
to my surprise, no need to reinstall Ubuntu, and it already comes with its own version to drive the video card
nvidia-glx-180, which can even support 9800GT
not like CentOS need to download the driver from nvidia.com, which is also not tedious.
invoke "init 3 " to logout X windows
run the NVIDIAxxx.run
some things to take note
-- no need extra power for 9600, can run with my 450w power supperlier
-- need to occupy an extra PCI slot from huge fan, other than the PCI express lsot.
-- Looks still lacking of official centralized linux hardware compatible list, existing one is not update frequently and update-to-date.
-- big vendor should spend more effort to Linux community. Otherwise, less market share/lower stock price is their pay back.
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