Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian
Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote:
> Hanasaki JiJi said:
> > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback software?
> >
> > I am hoping for only open source. I know that leaves NVidia out due to
> > the closed drivers. How about ATI?
>
> just because it's closed doesn't mean it's unsuitable. for example,
> I would like high performance 3D on debian 3.0 on kernel 2.2.19. From
> what I can tell my only option is nvidia. Matrox requires 2.4.x,
I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have
a Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's
extremely fast and stable and completely open source.
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