[Fluxus] which video card?

[Dave Griffiths]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 22:08 +0200, rosea grammostola wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, gabor papp <gabor.lists at mndl.hu>
> wrote:
>         hi Rosea,
>         
>         
>                 I'm building a PC for a recording studio. What video
>                 card should I choose to work with on Linux? Nvidia,
>                 ATI, ... ? Which type?
>         if you want to use real-time graphics applications like fluxus
>         i would
>         strongly suggest nvidia, because ati has the unfortunate habit
>         of
>         dropping linux support for their older graphics cards.
>
> I asked several people, most people told met to go for a bit older ATI
> cards, cause they have (improved) open source drivers....
> 
> It' s a bit confusing...

Well, I have this problem with my laptop, which has one of these
chipsets abandoned by ati. I keep an old version of ubuntu intrepid on a
partition for doing gigs, as the ati driver works with it - but day to
day I use karmic (puredyne) with the open source driver.

To give you some idea it runs generally at around 30% the speed of the
ati one in general fluxus use, and has no features like shaders. It's ok
for a lot of what I'm doing at the moment, and the free software drivers
are getting much better - but I will need to buy a new laptop soon
because of this.

And I wont be using ati again.

cheers,

dave