I wonder if you know of a video card that works well in Linux, because:
The ATI driver hangs up the whole computer to the point where I have to reinstall the OS.
The nVidia driver tries to take over the display settings from the OS which causes things to not work right, and the text terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F?) don't seem to work with it.
I wonder if you know of a video card that will provide hardware acceleration in Linux, without the above issues?

