jack wallen wrote:
anyone have a suggestion for a good video card (not high end) to use with FC4? i do a lot of graphics and DTP. thanks.
If you don't need anything overly powerful, any older Radeon (9250 and earlier) will work perfectly with GNU/Linux, and you won't have to worry about proprietary drivers or troubles that may be caused by such due to the fact that these Radeons are fully supported by the Free DRI drivers. :) I've got a Radeon 9200 in my box currently and it works beautifully. BZFlag, Wesnoth, PPRacer, etc. all run at 1400x1050 with their highest settings and no slowdown (Though FSAA is currently only supported through ATi's proprietary alternative driver). Note: If you plan to buy one of these do not purchase a SE card, as they only have half of the memory bandwidth of the ``normal'' card; i.e., 64-bit versus 128-bit. The SE also has a slower-clocked GPU (~200 MHz versus ~250 MHz) You may want to check the DRI Wiki for more information: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --------------------------------------------------- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. My blog: http://peter.ramshacklestudios.com/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------
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