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Re: Xgl
by Tom on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @09:32

Well, apart from those of us getting reasonable performance out of the free drivers in Xorg :)

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Re: Xgl
by cies breijs on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @10:01

i dont know, but, is there any free (as in Freedom) driver for the recent 3D graph cards?

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Re: Xgl
by Brandybuck on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @10:23

No, not really. Next time don't throw away your video card just because some pimply kid makes fun of your "obsolete" system :-)

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Re: Xgl
by Zak Jensen on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @11:36

Hey- that statement isn't exactly fair to those of us who (inexplicably or accidentally, of course!) destroy our hardware. ;)

As far as the nVidia cards go, the (proprietary) linux drivers have performed very well. I have yet to have an issue with the speed of my rendering, and I've been using their driver for a few years now.

It supports all of the features available on windows, and it even has its own configuration program. :) nVidia seems quite devoted to the cause.

Note: I have a desktop card (GeForce), not a workstation card (Quatro (?)).

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Re: Xgl
by Jonas on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @14:22

You can still buy the (DRI supported) Radeon 9200s. They're really cheap, needs no fans, and some models comes with DVI so it's a perfect product right now. But they probably won't be available in another 6 months, since they will stop producing the chipsets.

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Re: Xgl
by Lurchi on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @14:51

Bought an 9250 some days ago. Works fine with the OS drivers, has DVI+VGA+TV, 128MB and passive cooling. It also work with AGP 2x-8x (3.3V, 1.5V and 0.8V signal level), which I needed for my really old motherboard (GA-7ixe4, SDR-RAM, Duron 700). Nice and cheap card.

If you need more power, there is the 9550, which is supported by the r200 driver, and for newer cards (r(v)3xx and r4xx series) support is on its way (http://r300.sf.net/), Quake3 already working.

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Re: Xgl
by KDE User on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @15:31

Haha, I love the comment about the no fans. They should hype that as a feature in fact.

I hate the fans. So noisy and annoying.

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