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henke
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 Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 7:27 am Post subject: Graphics card with open source driver |
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I'm looking for a graphics card that has a open source driver supported/created by the card manufacturer.
I'd like it to support 1280x1024x32 and OpenGL
Hmm, that might have been too specific. Does anyone have a tip about a manufacturer?
Does anyone know of a site like www.linuxprinting.org or www.alsa-project.org for graphics cards? |
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squanto
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Nvidia has pretty darn good support for their cards on linux. I think that any card up from the original geforce will suit your needs pretty well. A low end geforce4 will run about $60 USD.
Check out their site for linux: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123
They have downloads and info on how to set up the driver correctly listed there. The driver is in portage as well under nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.
ATI makes great cards as well, but since I don't have any experience with them, I will let someone else address how to get more info on their cards.
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henke
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I know Nvidia and ATI have drivers for Linux. These are however closed source 
I'd like to try a 2.5.* kernel but I was under the impression that the drivers didn't work that well with the 2.5.* kernel series. (Mabey I'm wrong here.)
Besided I'm getting kinda tired of having to go through the extra hoops each time I recompile my kernel just to get my nvidia card working  |
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AlterEgo
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| The latest Nvidia drivers work under 2.5.x. |
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mglauche
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| for a good card with open source drivers go for a matrox G4xx. Maybe u can find some used G400's somewhere cheap. They are not good in 3D but have quite decend 2d performance, and stunning 2d quality .. |
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henke
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| Thanks for the info guys |
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choward
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| mglauche wrote: | | for a good card with open source drivers go for a matrox G4xx. Maybe u can find some used G400's somewhere cheap. They are not good in 3D but have quite decend 2d performance, and stunning 2d quality .. |
Do you know anything about the G550? I'm looking at that for a dual-head setup and hopefully some decent Mesa performance.
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lx
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| AlterEgo wrote: | | The latest Nvidia drivers work under 2.5.x. |
Support working as off version 2.5.48+ cause of rusty's major module patch, I 've posted a very ugly and quick and dirty hack to get it working with the later version, I'm not going to repeat the patch, cause it's so ugly, but I posted it somewhere.
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