Video Card Recommendations

[Tom Low-Shang]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:52:35PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> If I was buying a new video card today for a desktop machine, what
> should I buy?  I want complete support under Linux, obviously, and
> preferably an Open Source driver rather than a 3rd-party binary.
> 
> Most importantly, it should be able to show movies without bogging down
> too much, but otherwise I'm not looking for much in the way of
> performance.  Reading text in a terminal is not too challenging, after
> all.  Thanks.

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Status is a good reference for
which graphics cards have open source drivers. Using the
information on that site, I bought this older ATI card:
http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=AT9250.
It works flawlessly. Movies play smoothly and the 3D
acceleration works well enough to run FlightGear Flight
Simulator on my aging dual PII 350 from 1998.

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