[wellylug] video card choice

[David Harrison]

There is the Nouveau project which is aiming to get decent 3D  
accellerated drivers for NVidia cards:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

I'm not sure how well it works or the depth of the hardware support  
but the core driver is based on the NV driver.


David


On 17/01/2007, at 1:02 PM, Richard Hector wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Any suggestions on linux-friendly video cards?
>
> I want free drivers, PCIe, for a new AMD 64-bit machine, and  
> ability to
> do dual-head. Does anything exist?
>
> My understanding, as one who pays little attention to hardware, is  
> that:
>
> ATI Radeon 92xx and below work fine, but aren't available for PCIe
> Newer ATI cards don't work very well under linux if at all
> nVidia cards work ok, but need binary drivers
> Intel chipsets work ok, but may need hackery for odd resolutions, and
> aren't available as separate cards, so are hard to use with AMD  
> systems
>
> How do other brands compare? SiS? Matrox? Others?
>
> Have I missed anything obvious?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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