Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > my advice is: it's better to buy the high-end of the second generation > (ie, newest old) than it is to buy the low-end of the new. > > You might say "but what about the new features of the new?", to which > i would reply "why bother if no software makes use of them?"
Concur. Last I heard, good open-source drivers (including GL) exist for ATI Radeon cards up to model 8500, plus its cheaper variants models in the 9000-9200 series. Those would probably be my pick if I cared about 3D support; if not, I might just look around for an old Matrox G400, which are still hard to beat for overall quality and software support. (With Radeon models 9500 and up -- the "r300+ series" -- people end up getting stampeded into into binary-only proprietary drivers, including kernel support modules.) -- Cheers, "Don't use Outlook. Outlook is really just a security Rick Moen hole with a small e-mail client attached to it." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Trosko in r.a.sf.w.r-j _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
