Re: 3D video card recommendations

Jerome Glisse
2005-11-07T15:50:42Z

On 11/7/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:55:13 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>
> >> > people who buy a 3D card for linux that depends on a closed source
> >> > module take a few risks, and they should be aware of them (I suspect
> >> > they are) so let me make some of them explicit:
> >>
> >> Are there good 3D cards that don't depend on a proprietary module, that
> >> can run on a AMD64 board? That was pretty much my questing to begin
> >> with :)
> >
> > http://www.xgitech.com/
> >
> > Not the fastest pieces of hardware out there by some way, but they
> > _do_ have open-source drivers.
>
> That's not entirely true. The DRI driver is closed source.
>

DRI closed source ? You mean the fglrx driver from ati ?

Anyway my advice would be to look at dri project an
see the supported card list. http://dri.freedesktop.org
if you want a card with open source 3d driver.

ATI & Intel graphics chipset seems to have the best
open source support i am aware of. For ATI the r300/r400
(radeon 9500-9800/ X300-X800) support is still
experimental (IIRC there are PCI-E issues).

best,
Jerome Glisse