Re: Best Video Card
Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500.
> I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers
> are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must
> protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much to
> support a graphics manufacturer who opens their specs as much as
> possible to opensource and free software developers. Having said
> that, what are everyones thoughts about which card that might be? At
> one time it was Matrox are they still the most GNU/Linux friendly out
> there or has someone else taken the lead on that? I wouldn't mind
> supporting ATi/nVidia if they at least opened up their specs on old
> cards (say older than 3 years) do they really have that much to lose
> by doing so?
>
You may also be interested to know that at the propriertary drivers
from Nvidia make it quite hard if not impossible to put a system into
hibernation made, sleep mode, or suspend mode.
The nv drivers work, the ones from ATI as well. But not Nvidia's.
There ACPI implementation... well... sucks, a bit.
I use Ubuntu on my work laptop, which recognizes both well known
models of video cards: ATI and Nvidia. (And ofcourse a lot more.)
They are all good enough to at least allow me to work decently.
Eye candy? Don't need it. 3D? Also not needed.
As for Debian: I use that for the real work: Serving. No need for a
video card except for installing Debian the first time..
0.02€
Mark
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