Tracy R Reed wrote:
Doesn't the 3dlabs card require their own proprietary drivers? I just
checked and the 3dlabs cards that say they support Linux come with 256M
of RAM and cost around $380! I really don't need 3d support at all, I
just like to be able to see a bunch of xterms at once!
Well, the you have pretty much limited yourself to ATI, ATI, and, well, ATI.
XFree86 has open source driver support up through the 9200 series, I
think. I used to have a dual head 9200 card, it worked just fine, but I
needed 3D, and the support for that was flaky (it was, in fact, the
crappy 3D support that shifted me from Linux to OS X).
After the 9200 (RV250?), ATI no longer released 3D programming info;
however, I think that the 2D dual-head stuff works just fine.
As a bonus, most of those cards should be pretty cheap, nowadays.
-a
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