On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: > > I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no > > responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they > > could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since > > this is a totally different track to solving my problem I felt a new > > subject was in order. > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I would probably be tempted to buy an nvidia or ati card and dump the > > > sis driver. > > > > I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from > > the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my > > first PC compatible. That would have been about 26 years ago. Getting > > a new board might not be that bad of an idea, but, as I have not > > recently had to make such a purchase I have not looked into what is good, > > bad, works with Linux, etc. I am not looking to spend a lot of money > > and I don't need a fancy gamers board. I just need something that does > > the job. I noticed that Fry's has several inexpensive EVGA boards, > > specifically a 7200GS w/128MB or 256MB PCI-Express and an 8400GS w/512MB > > for only $10.00 more. I don't mind the extra $10 for double to > > quadruple the memory and a faster core, but is this a good board with > > solid support? With rebates, these boards are going for $29.99 to > > $39.99. Are there better boards that can be had for similar prices? Is > > there a different line that I should look into? I don't want to start > > any religious wars over what is the best graphics card. I just need a > > solid card that works and doesn't have issues like the onboard Sis > > chips seem to have. > > > My personal experience is that intel, ati and nvidia one or two generations back all work ok with the free drivers, none provide real 3d performance. As far as I know ati drivers are open but problematic. Nvidia's are closed but work pretty well. intel cards are pretty mediocre (especially the x3100 that comes on a lot of cheap laptops these days). It's worth buying a standalone card as it uses it's own memory and not shared memory. Personally I would go with nvidia and the proprietary drivers (if you don't mind non-free). > I know the feeling, since a family member has an HP machine with an > on-board SiS graphics chip-set. > > As I had an AGP motherboard, I used a second hand ATI Radeon 9200 SE > which works well with the Free "radeon" driver in package > xserver-xorg-video-radeon. > > If considering an ATI graphics card you will probably want to find out > what chip-set the cards you are looking at use. > > The "radeon" driver supports *some* ATI graphics cards using PCI > Express, others are supported in the Free "radeonhd" driver in package > xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd. > > If you have these packages installed, look at the manual pages for > "radeon" and "radeonhd" and web pages: > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature > > to find what chip-sets and features are supported. > > Arthur. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
