On Saturday 19 May 2007, BandiPat wrote: > I still prefer the ATI cards for ease of use and good Linux > compatibility. If you go with something older, 92xx, 96xx or 98xx, > you'll find that xorg supports those cards right out of the box! You > won't have to give a lot of money for them either. They'll give you > great 2d and 3d support with only xorg drivers, no need to install the > ATI binary drivers. The models I listed only come in AGP models though > and many 64-bit motherboards only have PCI-x type slots.
I hadn't thought about ATI cards and not using the binary drivers. This too would a viable course as well - for myself I use the 3d drivers because I game in Linux and without these the frames rates are more like a slide show. But as you've said, you're not interested in 3d on that level and therefore a 96xx or similar series would also do well since setting up X with their drivers would be suffice. I just spoke from the perspective hardcore Gamer. Lee has a good point though and either the nvidia, ati, or even bargain generic clone vid cards would do the job. Cheers, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
