Re: [Sheflug] Happy new year... and video cards :-)

[Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:33:19PM +0000, Chris J wrote:
> Happy new year all,
> 

HNY

> I'm looking for something that at least supports 3D and OpenGL, and
> preferably isn't nVidia (mostly due to limited support in open source
> code and an otherwise potentially problematic driver supplied by nVidia
> themselves).
> 

There is a project called nouveau which seeks to develop an open 2D and 3D driver for NVidia cards. Worth keeping an eye on.

>  From doing some poking around, the ATI Radeon's seem to be a fairly
> good choice[1], but does anyone have any experience one way or the
> other, or any alternatives?
> 

Personally I have a Dell laptop with onboard Nvidia, a desktop that has twin Nvidia 7900GTs in SLI and those are the only really 3D capable machines I 
have. Yes, I run the binary Nvidia driver which is a compromise on a free software platform, but I can live with it for now.

> The whole nVidia avoidance goes to the mainboard as well as I've read
> problems or lack of full support for the nForce chipset, including not
> being able to get sound.
> 

The ASUS motherboard I have has a full nforce chipset and it all works just fine, sound too. 

Wont do you any good though, it's got an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU rather than the AMD X2 you plumped for. :)

Cheers,
Al.

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