On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, John Elliott wrote: > Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well > supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers? > > Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better.
Hmm. Not clear from your message if you are implying that you want a ATI radeon type card with a FLOSS driver, or something else? The nvidia-based cards work for me. I was not a fan of the nvidia closed source drivers for years. But after reading an interview about them about the shared code between their different platforms, I am more accepting. Nvidia does at least keep the drivers updated with features for linux. John, you mentioned 1920x1080. Are you planning to watch HD video / MPEG streams? Nvidia drivers support VDPAU ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU ). I installed an inexpensive nvidia card (GT210) on my mythtv box two months ago and it _really_ works. Watching HDTV takes almost no CPU at all with VDPAU and the GPU doing most of the work. Pccyber has GT210s for (oh my - on sale now, for $36.77 with rebate) Does that meet your 'inexpensive' requirement? It's a good price even without the rebate. There might be even better deals, but I would not hesitate to look at this card specifically, and pccyber's stock in nvidia cards. Brett _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
