On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 16:39, Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > 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.
I would say they are wonderful for the cards they fully support. It is true that many newer cards have little support so far, but they are moving pretty fast. > intel cards are pretty mediocre (especially the x3100 that comes on a lot of > cheap laptops these days). Maybe mediocre in power by modern ATI/Nvidia standards, but my brand-new Intel board has a x3100, and it has been very well behaved, and it runs ioquake3 (improved version of the Quake III engine) beautifully (the 3000, no "x", is a very sad little chip, however). I haven't yet tested heavier games on this system. > 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. I ran a passively cooled Radeon 9550 (OSS drivers) for a long time; it was wonderful. I don't run it now, simply because I have decent onboard Video, and Intel drivers are at the forefront of Xorg/Mesa innovation. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
