[TriLUG] Since we're discussing hardware...any thoughts on a"Linux-friendly" new video card??

[al johnson]

Thanks for the reply, Dan. Your information was very helpful. Was sorry to
hear that the Radeon cards can't be used with Linux (at least not
yet!).---Alf
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----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel T. Chen <crimsun at email.unc.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Since we're discussing hardware...any thoughts on
a"Linux-friendly" new video card??


> Generally Matrox cards are very good in this respect (but their 3D suffers
> compared with Nvidia's using Nvidia's binary-only drivers and with
> ATI's). I've had good luck with my G400, but I don't think it has a "DVD
> interface" per se. Currently CVS (HEAD) X is somewhat of a moving
> target; just a few days ago some fixes were committed that corrected the
> RENDER extension being broken in *all* the drivers, and I myself have not
> had luck getting an ATI Radeon-chipset card to work (correctly or even at
> all) on my Via Apollo Pro KT133-based motherboard. There's more useful
> information in the DRI archives at http://dri.sourceforge.net
>
> dtc
>
> ---
> Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
> GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, al johnson wrote:
>
> > It has come to my attention that I may have to replace my ATI Rage video
> > card which contains a DVD interface. Can anyone suggest a NEW video card
> > which may be suitable for someone using Linux. I also want a DVD
interface
> > on the new one as well. I'm told that there are now just a few video
cards
> > which are available from only two companies ATI being one and I can'
recall
> > the name of the other. Suggestions anyone??
>
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