[TriLUG] Since we're discussing hardware...any thoughts on a "Linux-friendly" new video card??

[Daniel T. Chen]

Generally Matrox cards are very good in this respect (but their 3D suffers
compared with Nvidia's using Nvidia's binary-only drivers and with
ATI's). I've had good luck with my G400, but I don't think it has a "DVD
interface" per se. Currently CVS (HEAD) X is somewhat of a moving
target; just a few days ago some fixes were committed that corrected the
RENDER extension being broken in *all* the drivers, and I myself have not
had luck getting an ATI Radeon-chipset card to work (correctly or even at
all) on my Via Apollo Pro KT133-based motherboard. There's more useful
information in the DRI archives at http://dri.sourceforge.net

dtc

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, al johnson wrote:

> It has come to my attention that I may have to replace my ATI Rage video
> card which contains a DVD interface. Can anyone suggest a NEW video card
> which may be suitable for someone using Linux. I also want a DVD interface
> on the new one as well. I'm told that there are now just a few video cards
> which are available from only two companies ATI being one and I can' recall
> the name of the other. Suggestions anyone??