best video card for use with open source drivers?

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Gordon <peter <at> thecodergeek.com> writes:
> [1] Full 2-D/3-D acceleration support, video scaling through Xv, and XRender
> acceleration through EXA, but texture compression (S3TC) is not implemented
> due to its legally questionable nature. Neither FSAA nor Anisotropic Filter
> is supported (yet?).

S3TC support can be added by installing a library called libtxc_dxtn, the 
drivers know about it and will dlopen it if it's there. Note that that library 
is illegal in the US and may be illegal in other countries because S3TC is 
patented.

        Kevin Kofler