RE: Wich brand of graphic cards?
I use an ATI 9700 Pro. It can be little bit of a hassle getting 3D
acceleration running the first time, but there are some websites with good
instructions and prepackaged binaries for Debian.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fokkema [mailto:dfokkema@ileos.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:43 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Wich brand of graphic cards?
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:10:29PM -0400, Franco Gorziglia wrote:
> > I'm thinking in buy a new graphic card; Which one runs better with
> > linux? Is there a brand that support better the free
> software with the
> > appropriate drivers? Thank you!
>
> ATI is nice, I think. I specifically bought a laptop with an
> ATI card. It works very well for me using the open source
> drivers. Of course, ATI has proprietary drivers which are
> (supposed to be) even better.
>
> BUT: before you buy I card, google around for specific
> models. For example, ATI cards are well-supported, except for
> the newest models (9800 or something like that). Probably the
> ATI proprietary driver _does_ support them, but you should
> want to use it.
>
> David
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