[wellylug] video card choice

[Alex Thomson]

As I mentioned this is at least usable in that 2D is working fully and a 
lot of 3D functionality is at least runnable (although they do seem to 
be having issues with 8800 series cards).  It is in the stage where 
linux distros are looking to have it included in the ~6 month timeframe.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNouveau?highlight=%28CategoryFedora7Features%29

(Can't speak for other distros, I only really follow Fedora progress)


David Harrison wrote:
> 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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