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SubjectRe: 3D video card recommendations
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > people who buy a 3D card for linux that depends on a closed source
> > module take a few risks, and they should be aware of them (I suspect
> > they are) so let me make some of them explicit:
>
> Are there good 3D cards that don't depend on a proprietary module, that
> can run on a AMD64 board? That was pretty much my questing to begin
> with :)

http://www.xgitech.com/

Not the fastest pieces of hardware out there by some way, but they
_do_ have open-source drivers. Don't know if they work with AMD64,
though.

There's also the OpenGraphics development work. See the summary at
http://kerneltrap.org/node/5743

Hugo.

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