[plug] Video card of choice for linux

[Trevor Phillips]

James Andrewartha wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Wright wrote:
> 
> > The only issue with them is the lack of source code. Their kernel driver
> > source is available, but the XFree86 driver source is not. In my opinion,
> > it's a relatively minor issue - but it would be nice if they'd open-source
> > both drivers.
> 
> Apparently NVidia get some of their drivers (OpenGL?) from another
> company, so they can't open source the code since they don't own it.

Although I've just bought an NVidia GF2MX myself (altho the courier seems to've
lost it. ;_;), I'd just like to plug that Matrox cards (eg; G400) have
excellent 2D quality, and very good Linux support, including framebuffer
support and other cool stuff. The 3D was easy to get working (with X4 and a
recent kernel), but 3D performance is way behind NVidia's. However, a G400
gives good 3D performance, if you cut some detail settings down (I think around
the 30-40fps mark in Quake3 @ 640x480 with "normal" settings?)

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