Hello Ricardo, I thought I would try to answer your question but you seem to have ruled out NVidia and ATI both of these manufacturers are well supported under Linux and usually have a suitable installation programs for certainly the later cards, which available from the manufactures website. In the case of ATI who are now owned by AMD they promised to make available Open Source software for there latest cards only.
On the other hand NVidia have always supplied drivers for the Linux community but these are not Open Source software, there is or was a campaign to address the Open Source driver issue with both these manufacturers. http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ NVidia Petition http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/ ATI Petition I hope I am not stepping on any toes here just adding my £ worth Delboy ricardo lafuente wrote: > dear list, > > please pardon me for a slightly off-topic question; > > i'm currently looking for choices for getting a new (desktop) PC, for > mostly visual stuff (pd gem+pdp and maybe cinelerra) and some audio > work. My plan would be to just have it running pure:dyne. However, the > array of choices and possible pitfalls are a bit overwhelming, so i > would ask you for your opinion on choosing the closest to the 'right' > system for a p:d rig: > > * graphics card: Nvidia and ATI seem to be out of the question, at least > for having a properly supported (and free) graphics setup. What would be > your choice for a good, natively 2D+3D accelerated card? > > * processor: is quad-core any good for p:d? or should i stick to dual or > even single core? > > * sound interface: are there any good internal sound cards you had a > good experience with? or should i go the USB/Firewire sound interface > route? > > many thanks in advance, and thank you all for p:d! > ricardo > > > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
