[Gloucs] Video card on a new computer

[John Kilgour]

On Sunday 08 May 2011 15:42:54 Paul Broadhead wrote:
> John Kilgour wrote:
> > I may soon have to replace my 2003 PC with an Athlon XP processor and
> > Intel graphics. Possible new machines (low cost) have Intel, Nvidia
> > or ATI radeon graphics. Please can any of you indicate which of these
> > are most Linux friendly?
> 
> Like others, I have always used Nvidia on my desktop.  Shame the drivers
> are proprietary but you have to decide; do you want stable, fast 3D
> graphics or not.  Using Debian/Ubuntu, I have not had to manually
> compile/tweak the driver for years.  I currently use a GeForce GT 240.
> 
> My only experience with ATI is on an old X31 laptop for which support
> varies but is never great. I've used various integrated Intel cards on
> netbooks and laptops.  These all work fine with 3D acceleration on the
> latest open source drivers; good enough for the new desktops and media
> playback but limited for games.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
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Thank you for all your replies. I have now got a machine with Intel GMA 3100 
graphics. I will report on it's Linux behaviour when I have got this running.
John Kilgour