That's certainly out of the norm, at least from my experience (with a
couple of boxes). Before I the motherboard died, I was running an athlon
machine with a Geforce2 MX 24/7 for 2 years. I was rebooting every 2-3
months (usually for kernel or hardware upgrades), but iirc, never had X
or the
Yes, it is strange. I have the Radeon M9000 (mobility) series, and while the
drivers are still in development my machine is fairly stable... unless I do
something stupid and upgrade to the latest and greatest XOrg series (running
6.8.2-r2 fine)...
Mind you, being a laptop it ain't on for more
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 15:29 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a
replacement. Here's what I'm after:
- Easily/currently available
- Less that $150
- Must have open source drivers (I dislike binary only
Peter Hardy wrote:
I recently picked up an ATI Radeon 9250. They're fairly new and readily
available. I got mine up from EYO for... around $70 I think. There's a
binary driver, but the open source driver in the x.org server has almost
all of the same features. I think the only thing missing
Hey Erik,
On the lower end of the scale, you can probably pick up an old TNT2 m64
for ~$25 at most computer stores if you ask, although they won't be
advertising them :-). It'll work nicely with the open source nvidia
drivers included with X, and flawlessly with the nvidia binary drivers
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 03:29 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a
replacement. Here's what I'm after:
- Easily/currently available
- Less that $150
- Must have open source drivers (I dislike binary only
drivers
James Gray wrote:
Hi Erik,
If by low-end you mean accelerated 3D is not a requirement then I'd
Hmm, I always wanted to play with a bit of OpenGL programming so
accelerated 3D would be nice.
then I'd
*highly* recommend a Matrox G400/400Max, G450 or G550
I actually had a G400 a number of
You can get a NVIDIA FX 5700 for that price, and it's easy as all to
set up (much easier to get the drivers working then the Radeon cards,
and better performance under linux as well esp with 3d)
On 6/26/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Gray wrote:
Hi Erik,
If by
Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards
Assertion 2: If you want decent 3D, use NVidia cards and NVidia binary
only drivers (despite ethical reservations and the extra difficulties
of kernel debugging etc)
Anyone care to take issue with either of those?
Please?
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:28:03AM +1000, Harald Ashburner wrote:
Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards
Assertion 2: If you want decent 3D, use NVidia cards and NVidia binary
only drivers (despite ethical reservations and the extra difficulties
of kernel
The ATI drivers are ok, just a pain to install and get working (same
under windows) NVIDIA have always had much easier drivers (in my
experiance)
This wasn't supposed to become a card brand vs card brand war (i hope
anyway) I've given my suggestion, and the reasons for it, and even
with a binary
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 06:14:12AM +1000, Menno Schaaf wrote:
The ATI drivers are ok, just a pain to install and get working (same
under windows) NVIDIA have always had much easier drivers (in my
experiance)
apt-get under ubuntu or yum under fedora will get you ati binary drivers
afaik.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:29:29PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
- Less that $150
fwiw, you can get an entire motherboard with integrated sound,
video and lan for less than $80, that would probably kick
sand in the face of our beloved matrox 400/450.
Matt
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Harald Ashburner wrote:
Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards
Unfortunately, this definitely does seem to be true.
My box at work has the binary Nvidia drivers and about once a fortnight
or so, X dies, restarts and provides me with GDM login screen. For someone
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 17:31 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 15:29 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a
replacement. Here's what I'm after:
- Easily/currently available
- Less that $150
-
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:09 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:29:29PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
- Less that $150
fwiw, you can get an entire motherboard with integrated sound,
video and lan for less than $80, that would probably kick
sand in the face of our
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 07:42 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
My box at work has the binary Nvidia drivers and about once a fortnight
or so, X dies, restarts and provides me with GDM login screen. For someone
who keeps half a dozen windows open with what I'm working on, this is
a royal PITA.
Hi all,
I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a
replacement. Here's what I'm after:
- Easily/currently available
- Less that $150
- Must have open source drivers (I dislike binary only
drivers intensely)
Anyone have anything to recommend?
Cheers,
Erik
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