3d pci-e 'modern' card (Was: Re: Suggested video cards for Xorg)

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/17/06, Philippe Bourcier <buffalo.phil at free.fr> wrote:
>     hi all,
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone can recommed any video cards that have really good success with xorg and its configuration utitlity.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > P.S.  I have a Radeon 7200 AGP card. It wasn't a trivial task to manually setup the conf file to get it to work.
>
>   I'd like to buy a pci-express x 16 3d graphic card. I looked
> about gpl drivers, and founded only radeon r300, wich seems to
> stay in cvs. So, I finally think to a nvidia 6600gt.

the open source r300 driver supports all r3xx and r4xx cards (up
through x850).  The driver is still somewhat experimental so YMMV, but
it's definitely useable for most things.

Alex

> I do not need so much 3d (no games). Just I want a «up-to-date»
> graphic card.
> Any advice? Thx
>
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