On 12/20/06, jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just subscribed to this list so I can not reply to "suggestions > for hardware" message but as nobody mentioned open source drivers, I > thought I would. > > With pcie video on your MB, your choices are limited. The Ati X300 and > I believe X600 work with xorg 7.1. I carelessly bought an X1300 without > checking and it has no support(even 2d) with the xorg ati driver > because it has no 2d. I think I read somewhere that 2d is simulated > with the 3d hardware. I gave that away and bought the X300 because > I update kernels and everything else quite often and I do not care for > the hassle of binary drivers (plus i hate the tainted kernel message). > > If you are not looking for ultra high performance gaming hardware, I > belive that the intel video is your best bet. There are good open > source drivers (I belive they are supplied by intel) for both kernel > and xorg. I think you will have to buy intel cpu for this option. > > I bought ny 1st intel cpu/chipset in years recently for no reason > except the video driver issue with pcie MBs. I bought a core 2 duo > and it is faster than my athlon x2 at about the same price. > > jpd
Intel G965 support appears to be planned for Xorg 7.2, (Bought myself a nice beautiful new motherboard. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Xorg 7.2 compiled yet (3 full weekends of trying) , but that's another story (maybe for blfs-support when I got spare time). -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ nathan at linuxfromscratch org conathan at gmail com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
