Video Cards

[Nathan England]

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. In all reality, we will only use the 
Intel chipsets as the 2D/3D is pretty decent and I only want to show that 
Linux/X/KDE is capable of the same eye candy that Vista is.

And even that I don't need to do, because the linux boxes now are the only 
ones that don't have problems. I just want to play with the eye candy and 
show it off a bit.

nathan


On Tuesday 14 November 2006 21:31, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Just so someone here answers the original question:
>
> 1) The Radeon X600SE has good 2D support and limited 3D support in the GPL
> driver 2) The ATI proprietary drivers do not yet support the GLX extension
> (and hence don't support AIGLX).
>
> Short test:
> 1) install Ubuntu 6.10, and apt-get install driconf xdriinfo
> 2) run driconf to see if it detects DRI support in your card, if it does
> then you might get Beryl working (but it won't be particularly stable,
> practice any demo before showing it to the bosses).
>
> If you MUST have the eye-candy on that machine and the above test is
> negative, you can install the fglrx driver and layer XGL above X and get
> Compiz on that.  It's a little more work, and not as fast, but it might
> work if the GPL driver doesn't.
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> Nathan England wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm looking for a machine with a new video card. I haven't had much luck
> > with a few of the older Radeon based cards, and I love the nVidia cards,
> > however, the machine I am purchasing only has an ATI Radeon X600SE.
> >
> > I'm not going to play games, and this is a Linux only box, however, I
> > would like to play with AIGLX and all the new fancy eye candy.
> >
> > How do you like the performance of the newish ATI cards and how well do
> > they work? The ones I've used recently just seemed really flaky,
> > especially compared to the nVidia cards and my personal favorite the
> > Intel i915 based cards.
> >
> > Any information you can offer will be greatly appreciated. I'm not going
> > to impress anyone with the gaming ability of this machine, but the eye
> > candy will convince upper management that Linux will be better suited in
> > the future than XP... lol
> > It's funny how the eye candy wins things out like this...
> >
> > nathan
>
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