Most recent chips will at least work with the open driver. With gdm it can be pot luck how much hassle you get as it sometimes doesn't pick up NVIDIA chips correctly even when they have Linux drivers. On half a dozen boxes with chips that actually are supported, I've still had to faff about with different drivers and then turn off compiz to get some of the on-board NVIDIAs to stop freezing GNOME on Intrepid and Karmic and then more hassle with codecs on some AV apps and/or hassle with screen resolution.
There's plenty of forums where people thrash out whether ATI or NVIDIA have suckier drivers but it's neck and neck ;) It's getting better with NVIDIA and ATI but slowly. I have relatively few problem with Intel graphics chips though and, unless you want to game, I try to stick with Intel on-board chips as they mostly work out of box. It doesn't seem to be there anymore but I got a really nice little Intel box from eBuyer a couple of months ago for less than £300 which installed like a lamb. If it's just for office purposes, you could look at FitPC http://www.fit-pc.co.uk/ which is designed to take Ubuntu. Paula / www.fossbox.org.uk pa...@fossbox.org.uk Tel: 020 7481 8479 Skype: bastubis / Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 07/04/10 09:58, Jon Farmer wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 08:59 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> >> >>> ATI have been making big moves toward supporting linux and also open >>> sourcing much of the driver code. They just recently announced a new >>> driver that will support the brand new OpenGL 4.0 specification >>> simultaneously across Windows and Linux. >>> >> That's interesting because recently I asked some opinions on #ubuntu-uk >> about this >> >> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/189241 >> >> and someone warned me the ATI graphics card was not supported. >> > > Just FYI, here's the link. > > http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/first-with-openglr-2010apr05.aspx > >
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