[Cialug] graphics accelerator

[Nathan C. Smith]

Don't be afraid of nVidia even if it is proprietary.  It works well. (I
suppose that is what is on your Dell machine at work no that's I've said
something nice about it)

Also, Matrox is still available - although they might be more in the 2D
high-performance area.

Probably the best thing to do is find a card that is not too new and has
good OpenG/L support?

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Ramaley [mailto:daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] graphics accelerator
> 
> 
> My current primary computer at home is about 8 years old. 
> I've decided 
> it is time to build a new one. Since i last built a machine 
> it appears 
> the graphics card industry has gone through quite a 
> shakedown, leaving 
> just ATI and nVidia. And as far as i can tell so far, both companies 
> are opposed to open source. Are there any modern graphics 
> cards with 3D 
> acceleration that have open source drivers?
> 
> After the experience of running an ATI closed-source driver 
> on my Dell 
> computer at work, i do not want any proprietary garbage on my home 
> machine. When using the proprietary driver on my work machine 
> it is the 
> most unstable Linux box i've seen in years; about once a week 
> i have to 
> SSH in and reboot it because the graphics card decides to 
> wedge. There 
> is an open source driver that i also use. When using the open-source 
> drive i give up 3D acceleration and some 2D performance in 
> exchange for 
> the usual rock-solid stability that open source offers. I'm just 
> wondering if there are any cards out there where such 
> sacrifices do not 
> have to be made. It looks like there is a group trying to 
> design a card 
> to work wonderfully with open source (Google "open-graphics" 
> for info), 
> but it looks like they are a few years from production hardware, if 
> they ever get there.
> 
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