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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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