Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,


At least there is an open source driver being worked on.



>
> 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.
>

I will say the the fglx driver worked on 64bit Fedora 7.  Right now I'm
using the radeon driver from X.org and other then having only one way of
doing dual display, I'm ok with it.  And no hardware OpenGL for others that
might want it.


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

I used to have a Matrox G450 under RedHat 9 (not Fedora) that I really
liked.  It may have been a PCI board even.
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