Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/27/2010 2:17 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: Heavy 3D support simply requires the NVIDIA blob. No choice. Soon the Nouveau driver will change that, but for now... I disagree that Heavy 3D support requires the NVIDIA blob. You can

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 23:51 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and a

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Reid schrieb: > However, my experience with their binary drivers has been quite > good. They're reasonably easy to install, and seem to perform > quite well for me. In particular, they have one of the best > distribution-agnostic binary-blob installers I've ever run across. Actuall

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/10 13:51, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional vid

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:17:49 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > As long as you aren't wanting to do heavy 3D processing, that is the > best choice. Intel graphics do support enough OpenGL features and > run them fast enough to handle compositing window managers and a good > number of deskto

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 09. 2010 16:46:38 je Enrico Weigelt napisal(a): * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/26/2010 9:46 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS, and their > > binary-only drivers are simply crap. > > I must differ. > > Their closed binaries are usually pretty good. > Sometimes t

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/26/2010 9:46 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS, and their binary-only drivers are simply crap (dont want to flame on their bad coding practises here ;-o). I must differ. NVIDIA don't do open source because they believe they must keep closed

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:44:22 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20100926182947.30489...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com > wrote: > >On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 > >Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > >> > I need to get an agp video card so take the video l

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:40:48 -0400 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2010 10:46:38 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the > > > regular bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the > > > openchr

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100926182947.30489...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 >Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Rick Pasotto schrieb: >> > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the >> > regular bus. >> >> Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 26 September 2010 10:46:38 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games,

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread briand
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the > > regular bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the > > openchrome driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play > > gam

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Rick Pasotto schrieb: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional video file. Don'

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:37:34 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun September 26 2010, Angus Hedger wrote: > > Sorry for the long post! > > wow, if I was looking for a card, that would be exactly the info I > would want, no less!! > great post! One trys ones best, thanks! > I have DELL desktops

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:51:20 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-26 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:51:20 -0400 Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-25 Thread Carlos Bergero
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Probably any on-board Intel chip card would do, if you really only need text. Though if you wont some thing a little bit better, the smalles nvidia available is you choice, drivers work really great in them. Cheers, Carlos El 26/09/10 00:51, Ri