On 8/22/05, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to buy a LCD monitor with DVI, so I need a vid card to > match. Since it's for 2D only, I don't need much. I see that the > ~P3,000 DVI-enabled cards are all ATI - market forces? How are ATI > chipsets on X.org now?
I'm not really an ATI user (I use the other leading brand) but if all you'll be doing is 2d, X.org/XFree86's 2d driver should be just fine for those newer cards (R3xx and R4xx chipset). I'm not sure about Xv support on the oepn-source ATI driver, but if I'm going to base my experiences with Xorg's nVidia open source driver (nv) and the binary driver (nvidia), Xv support in the open source driver is not as good as the binary driver. Anyway, you only need Xv if you play hi-res video (DVD, hi-res DivX, etc.) -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! http://getfirefox.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
