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There seems to be a big change coming in graphics: Intel is coming out towards the end of the year with a motherboard with integrated graphics that will be competitive with the graphics provided by nvidia and ati cards. I am guessing that soon graphics for most applications will be provided in the same way that sound, ethernet, usb and others, which used to be provided by extension cards, are provided to most users today, as an integrated part of the motherboard. The days when ATI and NVIDIA can rack up huge profits selling cards for two, three, or four times the cost of a motherboard, are coming to a close. I'm sure there will always be a market for high end graphics cards, but for most of us, the graphics on the new motherboards will fill the bill. I'm hanging on with an old AGP nvidia 6600GT and relatively obsolete motherboard in anticipation of better solutions coming soon. Bill Roberts On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Platoali wrote: >> >> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm >> considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic >> applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my >> poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to >> buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards >> are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the >> process of freeing their graphic cards driver. But I did not have any >> good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was >> ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way it had to until broken. >> I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux? >> Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia? >> >> And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel >> regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently >> thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does >> anyone have any comment about them? > > ATI's drivers have been buggy to the point that I avoid them 100% of the > time when using linux. In multiple systems, using their drivers means that > my system will hard hang 100% of the time when exiting xorg in any way. Such > as logging out, killing xorg, rebooting, etc. > > Nvidias drivers are far more stable in linux, I would strongly suggest going > that route. I do not know the specifics of those cards, sorry. > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
