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

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed Nov 12 18:58:06 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 5:58 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
>    Thanks for the responses. My reason for asking was that I am trying to
> put together a box for someone else to do some video editing with
> reasonable ease, and must replace the old display card. It will need to
> display good quality video whether analogue or digital, straight or
> compressed, but that would probably not stress most modern cards with
> sufficient memory. The most unstable part of the system will probably be
> the intended user, so the less hassle the better.

If it's not being used for 3D hardware-accelerated OpenGL, then the 
open-source XFree86 drivers should be more than fast enough :-)

SteveH


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