On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> I don't actually care about 3D. Ideally I'd like a card with a
> proper DVI interface. And accelerated X. And open source drivers.
> The consensus seems to be some sort of Radeon? Which one is the
> best?
Radeon R1xx or R2xx. I have an R280 9200 working fine with DVI
(ironically, where NVidia wouldnt - odd display size). The ATi FireGL
8800 is apparently the fastest open-supported OpenGL card. *All* of
the Ati cards have open 2D support. For the TV-Out, etc, stuff see
GATOS.
Even if decide that your OpenGL needs dictate you buy one of the
newer R3xx ATi Radeon cards, that have only binary-only driver
support, at least ATi do have some demonstrated ability to hand over
specs (even if it requires a lot of money).
NVidia wont even hand over specs to the stuff like the ethernet
interface in their NForce chipsets. sigh.
regards,
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