Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263299AbTIHRYH (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:24:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263376AbTIHRYH (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:24:07 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.184.41]:49318 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263299AbTIHRYE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:24:04 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Hardware supported by the kernel Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <3F59DF81.8000407@bluewin.ch> <20030906134029.GE69@DervishD> <20030907223258.GE28927@redhat.com> <20030908092952.GA51@DervishD> <20030908095357.GD10358@redhat.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1063041832 9621 212.34.184.4 (8 Sep 2003 17:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:23:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1509 Lines: 31 Dave Jones writes: >Matrox - Not exactly a speed demon any more in the 3d market. Open > drivers though. Not sure about Parhelia. LOL. Buying a G550 was the biggest mistake I ever did. DVI-D support only with a binary only module and still a heavy bug in it (basically it takes a 90 second break when starting X). IMHO The best supported 3D gfx chip for Linux comes from nVidia. Yes, it is binary only and people invented the "TAINTED" flag to report this, but it is a fast, vendor-supported driver which works fine in 99% of all configurations which are one gfx board, one or two displays. (yes, I know it has some issues with power management on laptops). But all other vendors are worse and nvidia at least cares. If you just want 2D on an VGA, you can basically buy anything starting at $19. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire "Dominate!! Dominate!! Eat your young and aggregate! I have grotty silicon!" -- AOL CD when played backwards (User Friendly - 200-10-15) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/