I agree with the nVidia assessment. They may be closed-source for their drivers, but they seem to be willing to at least help out the open-source community. I have never had any issues with nVidia in Linux, just make sure you get a bit older of a card.
<br><br>Jerry<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan C. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:smith@ipmvs.com">smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Don't be afraid of nVidia even if it is proprietary. It works well. (I<br>suppose that is what is on your Dell machine at work no that's I've said<br>something nice about it)<br><br>Also, Matrox is still available - although they might be more in the 2D
<br>high-performance area.<br><br>Probably the best thing to do is find a card that is not too new and has<br>good OpenG/L support?<br><br>-Nate<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Daniel A. Ramaley [mailto:
<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU">daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU</a>]<br>> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:30 PM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a><br>> Subject: [Cialug] graphics accelerator
<br>><br>><br>> My current primary computer at home is about 8 years old.<br>> I've decided<br>> it is time to build a new one. Since i last built a machine<br>> it appears<br>> the graphics card industry has gone through quite a
<br>> shakedown, leaving<br>> just ATI and nVidia. And as far as i can tell so far, both companies<br>> are opposed to open source. Are there any modern graphics<br>> cards with 3D<br>> acceleration that have open source drivers?
<br>><br>> After the experience of running an ATI closed-source driver<br>> on my Dell<br>> computer at work, i do not want any proprietary garbage on my home<br>> machine. When using the proprietary driver on my work machine
<br>> it is the<br>> most unstable Linux box i've seen in years; about once a week<br>> i have to<br>> SSH in and reboot it because the graphics card decides to<br>> wedge. There<br>> is an open source driver that i also use. When using the open-source
<br>> drive i give up 3D acceleration and some 2D performance in<br>> exchange for<br>> the usual rock-solid stability that open source offers. I'm just<br>> wondering if there are any cards out there where such
<br>> sacrifices do not<br>> have to be made. It looks like there is a group trying to<br>> design a card<br>> to work wonderfully with open source (Google "open-graphics"<br>> for info),<br>> but it looks like they are a few years from production hardware, if
<br>> they ever get there.<br>><br>> --------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ----------<br>> Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake<br>> University<br>> Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave
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