Re: Low end display card

2006-11-13 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:56 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Intel 3D graphics sucks, both in terms of performance and both in terms of drivers. I have here i845 chipset and it's 3D has lots of problems (I did some tests with the X11 OpenGL screensavers, many of them only show in the upper half of

Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Chen Levy
Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11 supported card with 3D acceleration for under 50$? I need to replace my broken old AGP connected card. Thanks, Chen. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
I'll be joining that question. The Intel 3D drivers (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/) look promising but I couldn't find any standalone AGP cards with the Intel chipset (only laptops and on-board graphics). Chen Levy wrote: Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ok, I'll answer to you both: Intel 3D graphics sucks, both in terms of performance and both in terms of drivers. I have here i845 chipset and it's 3D has lots of problems (I did some tests with the X11 OpenGL screensavers, many of them only show in the upper half of the screen, no matter how

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:16 +0200, Chen Levy wrote: Hi all. Is nVidia is still considered to be the best Linux/X11 supported card with 3D acceleration for under 50$? I need to replace my broken old AGP connected card. Thanks, Chen. If you're willing to use closed source, binary

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:42PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: NVidia on the other hand has very good and stable 3D under XFree/Xorg, although the drivers are closed source if you care about this issue. I have NVidia based cards running on several Linux servers and they all work fine. Both the

Re: Low end display card

2006-11-12 Thread Julian Daich
El dom, 12-11-2006 a las 15:17 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson escribió: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:42PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: NVidia on the other hand has very good and stable 3D under XFree/Xorg, although the drivers are closed source if you care about this issue. I have NVidia