On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:10:27 +0200 Ira Abramov <lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org> wrote:
> Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Tue, 09 Oct: > > > > If you care about FOSS drivers, then you should definitely avoid > > all Nvidia > > > > Otherwise, I am a happy user of a laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon™ > > HD 4570 card, and a Core i3 desktop machine with the “Intel > > Corporation > > > > I recall the ATI HD 2600 Pro card being dual-port, so I assume most > > other recent cards will be too. > > > > So Gigabyte HD 6570 sounds about right, then? Though maybe I should > look for a card with no moving parts. fans tend to fill up with dust > and die. I asked about it on #radeon on irc.freenode.net and here was the reply: <farnz> rindolf: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature#Decoder_ring_for_engineering_vs_marketing_names - anything other than Southern Islands should work fine with the open-source radeon driver. SI is getting there with git-of-the-day pieces, but is still not up to speed. > > I'm trying to figure out if there's a difference in the > DVI-D/HDMI/Display Port jungle, other than improved DRM (HDCP) and if > that matters at all in Linux anyway. > > > Also, Anyone has anything smart to say for/against ordering from a > nameless eBay vendor compared to walking into a KSP-style shop? (and > if it's getting off topic, you can reply off-list...) > > Thanks! > Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Editors and IDEs - http://shlom.in/IDEs If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. — Unknown Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
