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Platoali schrieb: |
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> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm |
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> considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic |
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> applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my |
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> poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to |
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> buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards |
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> are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the |
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> process of freeing their graphic cards driver. But I did not have any |
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> good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was |
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> ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way it had to until broken. |
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> I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux? |
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> Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia? |
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> And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel |
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> regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently |
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> thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does |
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> anyone have any comment about them? |
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> Best regards |
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> Platoali |
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> |
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Quoting Donnie from his interview with LinuxCrazy: |
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[0:04:38] |
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comprookie2000: What video card do you recommend? |
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dberkholz: I like ATI or Intel, depending on your needs. Both of them |
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have done a really good job of opening up all their documentation and |
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their drivers in the past couple of years, more recently ATI: Intel's |
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been doing it for a while and set the standard. If you're a gamer, you |
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probably want ATI instead of Intel because the Intel ones don't perform |
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as well, but they're really nice and cheap and open. Some NVidia cards |
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work with a reverse-engineered driver called Nouveau |
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<http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/>, but I don't really want to support a |
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company that doesn't support open source. |
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comprookie2000: Yeah, I was on newegg.com <http://hewegg.com> and they |
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interviewed a person from NVidia and they said they weren't going to |
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open up the drivers, that's what the guy said on the interview. Tell me |
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about your everyday box. |
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Full transcript here: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=5099210#5099210 |
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Podcast here: http://linuxcrazy.com/?q=node/33 |
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