Video

Video cards that don't work with Linux.

• ATI x300 in a Dell Inspiron 9300: when changing resolutions above 1024x768, the desktop appears to "tile" which makes using the max resolution of 1440x900 illegible and therefore, improbable. Consistent in both SUSE 9.3 and Ubuntu 5.10.
• Gateway M305 laptop won't do it's native resolution of 1024x768 without a commercial X server from Xi Graphics.
• ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M
• S3 ViRGE/MX+MV (hangs and display errors with acceleration enabled)
• S3 Savage IX (No 3D acceleration)
• S3 Savage4 (Twister K - KN133) (No 3D acceleration)
• PowerVR Kyro2 (kernel 2.6+) (No 3D acceleration)
• ATI Radeon FireGL-T2 -- Proprietary driver doesn't do suspend/resume, and doesn't switch to text mode without crashing.
• Matrox parhelia, triplehead card. The driver is beta, binary only and 2D only. Fortunately, triplehead (even with 3D) is possible using any supported dualhead AGP card plus any PCI card that works well as a secondary video card.
• SiS 740
• 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 (no longer supports 3d and the left over 3d software drivers doesn't compile and is also missing helper files.)
• ATI R500
• ATI Radeon x1600 PRO PCIE (RV 530)

1. 1. No TV Tuner

• ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD Radeon 7200)
• 3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV
• AverMedia USB 2.0

1. 1. Unstable 3D

• ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD Radeon 7200)
• ATI Mobility Family ( ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1 -IGP 320M -IGP340M ?)
• ATI Radeon R200 Series (8500-9250) with proprietary ATI fglrx drivers. However, they work very well with the free radeon driver included in X.org and XFree86.
• The Mobility cards DO work, tested with real-life applications such as MythTV and Castle Wolfenstein, please try the Gatos drivers (http://gatos.sourceforge.net), upgrade your kernel to something later than 2.4.20 and also do not forget to bother the manufacturer since they usually make huge alterations to what you would expect from a "Radeon" card (think shared memory, limited GPU, fewer input/output ports, etc).

The original Radeon AIW (Radeon R100 QD) TV tuner and 3D works for the same reason described above by another poster; I have one myself. Use the most recent stable X.Org, GATOS drivers, and 2.6 kernel and you should be fine. I do admit that this AIW doesn't get along with certain chipsets/motherboards too well in Linux, so keep that in mind.

1. 1. Broken under Linux
   2. Matrox

The following 3D accelerated graphics cards by Matrox are currently classified as RED BAND, and are not recommended for purchase. These cards are considered non-programmable due to lack of technical specifications:

• Matrox Mystique 1064 \t This card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox Mystique 2064 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox P650 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox P750 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox Parhelia \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation, and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox Productiva G100 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Matrox QID \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.

1. 1. Matrox Parhelia series.

Binary blob driver for Linux, only x86 support. Did not compile successfully on my machine (ie the blob->kernel interface did not compile). What a shame, older Matrox cards has great open source driver support.

1. 1. For NVidia issues

All 3D accelerated graphics cards by Nvidia Corporation are currently classified as red band, and are not recommended for purchase. These cards are considered non-programmable due to lack of technical specifications. Some Nvidia cards may be usable as conventional VGA graphics cards, but the open source drivers do not provide 3D accelerated graphics or multihead operation. <http://www.tjansen.de/xfree-features/>

• In some cases a Linux instability issue CAN be replicated in windows, indicating a faulty card.
• The newer 3d GFX cards require a lot of power, check this link to see if your system can hack it.

<http://www.jscustompcs.com/power\\_supply/>

• For the most active and uptodate information (even refered to by NVidia)

<http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=268907ea3d655d99ac1051a7b5540404&forumid=13>

• Nvidia GeForce 6600 \t This card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6600 LE \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 XT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 6800 LE \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7100 GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7900 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8400GS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8500GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8600GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 512 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.
• Nvidia SLI Ready Quadro GPU \tThis card is nonprogrammable due to a lack of technical documentation and has no available opensource driver.

1. 1. Compatibility List

[Free3d.org](http://free3d.org/) - Maintains a list of open-source driver supported video cards.