On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:44:22 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <20100926182947.30489...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com > wrote: > >On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 > >Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote: > >> * Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> schrieb: > >> > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the > >> > regular bus. > >> > >> Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS. > >> > >> Those companies IMHO don't deserve a single penny. > > > >I quite agree. So maybe a good question is: who makes a video card > >that supports _decent_ 3D performance that has open source drivers ? > > ATI Radeon HD 4670 is the current king of 3D performance with an Free > Software X11 driver. Or, it was last time I checked > http://free3d.org/. > > Since ATI was acquired by AMD, they have made great strides in the > quality of the Free Software drivers. I've not yet owned one (stuck > with my Nividious 7800 GTXs), though. > > I have seen the ATI Radeon Mobility 4650 in action and the hardware > performs the games I like to play (StarCraft II) quite well. The > 4670 is fairly cheap right now if you can find one. > > I also have good hopes for the 5xxx line, as the AMD engineers are > already working with the X.org contributors. They've got a long way to go. I haven't use ATI in years because their WINDOWS drivers were so unbelievably unstable... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100926190047.607be...@windy.deldotd.com
