[Nottingham] looking for an AGP4 graphics card with good Linux support

[Michael Simms]

OK, for open source drivers, ATI is ahead of nvidia. Thats simply
because the closed nvidia drivers are way ahead of ATI's

Best: nvidia closed
2nd : ATI closed
3rd : ATI open
4th : nvidia open
5th : Just about anything else

The gap has closed recently, but Id always recommend nvidia right now. A
GF6600 will let you run pretty much anything on the market to date (tho
we have a game in the works that will stutter a little on a 6600) A
GF7800 is well supported and will likely run anything for the next
couple of years that we see on Linux, but they are still a bit pricey.

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:59 +0100, Michael Erskine wrote:
> A technical question (of all things!),
> 
> I run blunt-edge hardware (not wealthy enough to run cutting edge machines!) 
> and my Athlon 2000 machine shows its age when it comes to Doom3 (playable 
> until new textures are swapped in). I'm currently running a geforce4mx (NV17) 
> card with nvidia drivers for Xorg - this card was free so I'm rather pleased 
> in general. The mainboard (syntax SV266a) will only accept AGP4 - I'm looking 
> for anything with better performance that the NV17 for a reasonable price. 
> Perhaps an ATI somethingorother -- I'm not familiar with the ATI product 
> range at all :)
> 
> At the end of the day, the machine is used mostly as a development workstation 
> but I would like to play xgl with it!
> 
> Any guidance would be most welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Erskine.
> 
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