best video card for use with open source drivers?

[Robin Laing]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 15:47 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> 
>>I have a 7900gt, and use the nv drivers, and they work great.  I have dual 
>>19" lcd's and running anyting opengl between the 2 is smooth.
>>
>>Martin
> 
> 
> The generic nv driver doesn't do hardware 3D, only software OpenGL.
> If you try running anything beyond glxgears (which is not a benchmark
> [1]), you'll soon face the limitation of the software OpenGL
> implementation.
> In short, it won't even run tuxracer.
> 
> As for the OP, I'd try older ATI cards (which are built around the R2xx
> and R3xxx chips).
> Which it doesn't seem to work out of the box, people seem to have
> positive experience with the open source r300_dri driver.
> 
> Gilboa
> [1] http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark
> 
> 

I replace my ATI cards with nVidia after a month of headaches.  I 
couldn't even get tuxracer to run with the 9600 card I had.  The card 
worked great in Windows.  This was over a year ago though.

I will have to try tuxracer without the livna driver installed.  I just 
install it by habit using yum.

BTW, thanks for the link.

-- 
Robin Laing