Interesting discussion. My OP has stirred up a lot of passion!
So Arc, what video card (ATI or other) would you recommend for 3D 64 bit linux? I'm attempting to use vtk, are there better tools available for plotting/rendering/visualization? I'm trying to visualize a 1K x 1K 3D plot. --Bruce ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arc Riley Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:20 AM To: Neil Joseph Schelly Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging I tried that. I tried it with a SiS too. They were both awful. Perhaps that's because they were both integrated video, but there was no way to get overlays with any decent speed and no obvious flickering or keeping sound in sync, etc. It's been a few years I guess, yet again, so perhaps the landscape has changed. SiS is awful. The landscape for VIA changed around late 2005 with their release of GPL licensed drivers. Note this doesn't cover /all/ VIA/S3 video cards, though they're releasing free drivers for more chipsets all the time. If you haven't worked with VIA in the last 2 years'ish, for a system you don't need 3d on but need decent video, it's the way to go. Thousands of mini-ITX hardware hackers agree. :-) Last time I was shopping, the general wisdom of the internet seemed to suggest it wasn't worth trying, so after trying it with all the hardware I had in my old-hardware closet, I tended to agree. outside of r200/r300, yes, the free driver support for Radeons was poor to non-existent. As I understand it, AMD did release specs for the r100/r200 (and r300 drivers were easily derived from these specs) but nowhere near as much attention was given to r100 support as r200+ since by that point the r100's were virtually discontinued. In the last 6 months everything has changed as far as Radeons go, before AMD released the specs for the newer cards there wasn't much that could be done.
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