Re: Best choice for video card
David Teague <dbt@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu> writes:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick McFarland wrote:
>
> > It isnt up to the distro or desktop enviroment to what video
> > card you choice. Its up to the windowing manager.
The window manager, eh.. I'd be curious to learn how the choice of
window manager relates to the choice of video card..
> > recommend an ati raedon or raedon 8500, or any recent matrox
> > card (450+ or 550). Nvidia likes to make their own versions of
> > software often making it incompatible with most setups. This
> > includes their own personal gl library.
I run a matrox g450 and can recommend it. If you compare the matrox
website with other "leading brands", you'll notice matrox is the only
one that doesn't come across as a lot of unsubstantiated hype. They
actually list have details in their spec sheets, not just adjectives.
The fact that they support linux (although supposedly "unofficially")
seems to corroborate this.
> I'm running Enlightenment with Gnome 1.4. Can someone advise me
> further?
I'm pretty sure this is irrelevant to any practical choice of video
card. Any video card you can actually buy in a store is easily fast
enough to deal with any window manager. If for some reason you've set up
your window manager to do lots of OpenGL 3D stuff, make sure the card
you buy has decent accelerated 3D.
Again, I recommend Matrox, specifically the g450, which any recent
linux supports pretty much out of the box. Watch out for the g550 though, I'm
not sure if it's supported yet. Probably will be any day now.
OTOH, if you're trying to win Quake framerate competitions, the g450 may not
be your best bet, but something tells me you're not trying to win
Quake framerate competitions..
chris
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