Re: what graphics card to choose

[Mark Fletcher <Mark27q1@gmail.com>]

Chris Bannister <cbannister <at> slingshot.co.nz> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian 
has a
> > number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an 
nVidia
> > GeForce 9800 GTX+ which is 2-3 years old -- in other words, neither old nor
> > bleeding edge -- and 3D support is completely broken right now and has been
> > since the last working version at 290.10. You can get a Gnome 3 session 
going
> > but once you start to exercise the graphics subsystem, eg watching a video,
> 
> JFTR, you don't need accelerated graphics to watch a video.
> 

Nobody implied otherwise. The point is, in Gnome 3, do anything that makes the
video
hardware work remotely hard and, on some cards -- kaboom.