> Okay. Figure this one out. My family just got a new computer with a Diamond Viper V770 Ultra graphics card (Very nice - built on the NVidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra chipset), and I went about my typical business of installing my OS of choice (Linux). The trouble was, no matter what settings I use for the video mode (short of setting it to standard VGA), whenever I start X it defaults to 320x200x8. This is totally unacceptable - the card can do 2048x1536x32 (my monitor can't, but that's not the issue).
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> So I sent an e-mail to Diamond's tech support desk asking them if there is an available resource to meake it run properly. Diamond, recently, has been very good about Linux compatibility - all of the cards up through the Viper 550 are supported by the distribution of Linux I'm running (Red Hat 6.0, modified). The response I got - almost a week after I sent the request - was "we do not offer end-user support for Linux." They can't even tell me if there will be drivers available soon? Egad.
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> So, I guess I have to run in 640x480x8 (standard VGA) until I figure something out. Anyone have any ideas?



Use windows 98. The Viper V770 is a gaming card - - -the good games are mainly in win98 still, as lamentable as that may be. If you don't care about games, you shouldn't get a V770 - - it's too much money to spend for capabilites you'll never use.