Re: [SLUG] Yet Another Hardware Recommendations Thread

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 01:33:58 EST


On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19:45, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > steve szmidt wrote:
> >> My older machine has a GeForce4 Ti 4200 which has decent 3D (and is
> >> really cheap today). Anyway, the point is that using the nvidia
> >> drivers have never been a real problem. They make the binary driver
> >> available and you just get one that matches your kernel. So it does
> >> not a problem.
> >
> > Yeah, but I don't want to use a binary driver. That was the point. I'd
> > rather find a decent GPU that's natively supported by the kernel. I
> > don't want to go out and look for a driver.
>
> ... However, it appears from an extensive Googling that there just
> aren't any *serious* video cards supported by Linux. ATI and NVidia seem
> to be far and away the best, and both provide proprietary drivers. In
> ATI's case, they seem to be flakier.
>
> Crap. Looks like I'm stuck, unless someone knows something I don't.
> (Which is pretty likely! ;-)

They have very good drivers as far as I've seen. There's no searching either.
They are at the very same spot all year around...

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Steve Szmidt

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