On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 22:08 +0200, rosea grammostola wrote: > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, gabor papp <[email protected]> > wrote: > hi Rosea, > > > I'm building a PC for a recording studio. What video > card should I choose to work with on Linux? Nvidia, > ATI, ... ? Which type? > if you want to use real-time graphics applications like fluxus > i would > strongly suggest nvidia, because ati has the unfortunate habit > of > dropping linux support for their older graphics cards. > > I asked several people, most people told met to go for a bit older ATI > cards, cause they have (improved) open source drivers.... > > It' s a bit confusing...
Well, I have this problem with my laptop, which has one of these chipsets abandoned by ati. I keep an old version of ubuntu intrepid on a partition for doing gigs, as the ati driver works with it - but day to day I use karmic (puredyne) with the open source driver. To give you some idea it runs generally at around 30% the speed of the ati one in general fluxus use, and has no features like shaders. It's ok for a lot of what I'm doing at the moment, and the free software drivers are getting much better - but I will need to buy a new laptop soon because of this. And I wont be using ati again. cheers, dave
