Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I'd recomment another brand, preferably one with an opensource driver so you
> don't have my issues.

  Are there any decent graphics cards with decent Open Source drivers?
 I was under the impression there were none.

  NVidia makes nice cards, but the Open Source driver is buggy,
feature-poor, and slow.  NVidia has a proprietary, binary-only driver
which is fast and has more features, but it breaks every time there's
a kernel change, and you're SOL if you don't define "Linux" as
"certain 2.6.x kernels on i386 32-bit".

  Same with ATI, except their Linux support is worse and their
graphics hardware has sometimes had trouble keeping up with NVidia's
latest.

  Intel purportedly provides full specs for their graphics chipsets,
but the hardware itself is slow and feature-poor.

-- Ben