Card recommendations

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:53:29 +0200 René Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> babbled:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sep 9, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Yogesh M wrote:
> 
> > On 9/8/06, Ian Grant <Ian.Grant at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Can anyone recommend a video card or cards for use with Xorg and  
> >> Windows in single, dual-head and single logical-display-on-two- 
> >> monitors configurations? I want one that has open source, well- 
> >> supported, bug-free drivers available for X.Org 6.9 and onwards  
> >> running on ix86 and x86_64 machines. I don't need top of the range  
> >> performance, just something that works well that I can forget about.
> >
> > I've been using nvidia card (FX5200) for single desktop spanning on
> > two monitors without any problem on Linux as well as Windows. Also the
> > newer drivers are much stable and fast doing composite stuff.
> 
> well - as usual I like to comment this with: Do not feed NVidia as the
> the binary only driver is not available for all so many architectures
> including my favorite PowerPC/PowerPC64.
> 
> Please try to choose a chip with full open source driver :-)

and for a modern chipset that you can readily find on your favorite laptop,
desktop or as add-in card (agp or pci-e) what chip is that? i know of no
drivers that FULLY support ALL chip features in an OPEN DRIVER. the intel ones
are the closest - but miss a few (admittedly minor) things, but... we are
simply talking degrees of openness.

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