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On 10/10/2012 05:43, Shlomi Fish wrote:
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. Note that the ones with no fan are the absolute lowest end options. 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 |
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