I presently have a ATI Radeon HD 4350 which of course doesn't work with the 3d in mandriva 2010, so looking for suggestions on a new video card.

Are you sure you want to buy a new card? I admit that ATI can be a real pain in the back to enable 3D, but it's not impossible. I think it works quite nicely with newer kernels. I compiled 2.6.31.5 some time ago and managed to get 3D working on my slackware with ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series.

Thanks for the reply but I have been working on this for some time now, I have followed thread after thread of suggestions both here in linuxquestion and mandriva forum, I have recompiled on the latest kernel, pulled the drivers from the ATI site, pulled back ported drivers and have gone from freezing to a white screen to a very colorful jumbled messed but for the life of me I don't know what would be left to try, I back ported my laptop to 2009 free and discover 2009 and 2010 would not allow 3d to run on it. my desk top with the 4350 card just will work. *sigh* I've simply worked my self lost here at this point, I have seen where others have gotten thier cards working, have seen nothing on this exact card so spin off work of others I've found. If you or anyone else have figured this exact card out and are willing to share, I'm all ears! Thanks for your time.

Well, if you really want to buy a new card to make use of 3D capabilities, I'd assume most NVidia cards would do. You'd have to use the proprietary blob, though. The good thing it's usually a piece of cake to install it. I've got NVidia GeForce 7600GT and have never had any problems with 3D+proprietary drivers, regardless of a distro.


Make sure you won't get that monster from ATI, LOL. It would be quite frustrating to spend so much money only to find out one cannot enable 3D acceleration on it

If you would like to try to fix your ati card, you might be better off starting a separate thread with an appropriate title. It will probably generate more responses. I am afraid I won't be of much help when it comes to fixing it. AFAIR, I didn't have to do anything special to install ati drivers with 31.5 kernel. Good Luck

I run the nvidia 9600 series it works great and I am also using 2010 . the 2010 needs some serious work I would not sugest the 64 bit right now. give it a month or so.
I have the 64 bit.
Ati should work with the correct programs but the 64 bit is having some issues from my point of view. and untill they get there mirrors for the updates right it will just be ok.

Anything Nvidia is a good bet. I've had several nvidia cards and they all played nicely with various Mandriva releases.

I'm currently running an EVGA GTX-275 on Mandriva 2010. 3D desktop is up & running.

Like you, I wrestled with an ATI Radeon card (in my case, an HD 4350) for some time in Kubuntu and Mandriva 2010 before I finally said "I give!", went to Newegg, and got myself an Nvidia Geforce 9500GT. I've been happy since.

With ATI, if the crappy drivers don't get you, the HDMI sound madness surely will (if you have integrated sound like I do). The irony is that my HD 4350 doesn't even have an HDMI port - it has an S-Video port. But, that didn't keep Sapphire from putting an HDMI sound chipset on the card anyway. Arghhh!!!

Again, get the Nvidia card. It's not perfect, but you'll have a fully functioning system in any case.

Hope this helped.