[Gllug] Graphics cards + open source or contributed drivers?

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Wed Nov 12 16:36:59 UTC 2003


Huw Lynes writes:

>> My advice would be to stick with a current gen - 1 ATI card. It'll
>> still get you more than enough FPS, and is well supported by
>> XFree86.
>
>Unless, of course, you need a full-spec visualisation machine. At
>which point you really have no choice but to go with the closed
>drivers. And they really aren't that unstable.

Well yes, but the chances are that if you're that serious, then
HP will be giving you full 24x7 support for both the kernel and
their latest FX10 (or whatever) graphics card anyway, so it's
less of an issue...

Tet

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