AMD64 and xgl recommendations

[Patrick C]

For XGL/AIGLX, there are still a lot of PCI and AGP cards (even many Intel
onboard cards) that work great with AIGLX, which generally seems to have
better performance and just be a better solution. The real reason you should
get a PCI-E motherboard (unless you want two video cards with SLI, you only
need one PCI Express 16x slot) is that PCI (for video cards) is long dead
and AGP is dying--PCI-E cards are getting cheaper and cheaper, AGP cards are
getting more and more expensive. Don't even consider getting an ATi graphics
card, they have all sorts of problems with Linux, and are incompatible with
AIGLX (but sometimes work maybe with XGL) due to --you guessed it-- crappy
drivers.

You don't need a very fast card for the desktop effects, so you might wanna
go with a budget card. I've had AIGLX running on Intel onboard and on an old
NVidia FX5200. All you really need is a modern card with 128+MB of video
RAM. There are some chipsets that come with an NVidia 6100 as onboard; those
would probably be fine (they're PCI-E, so upgradeability is good if you feel
you need something beefier).
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