Video card

[Fred Silsbee]

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Video card
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 1:57 AM
> Hello Dan,
> 
> As pointed out by Dennis the Hardware Compatibility List
> maintained by
> Fedora is out of date by 4 years. I am afraid your only
> resource for this
> kind of information is experiences of other users. The HCL
> for other distros
> are not any better off either specially when you are
> searching for something
> relatively new. Probably the gentoo wiki has the most upto
> date list.
> 
> As for me, my experience with proprietary graphics drivers
> (even the ones
> repackaged by livna) have not been pretty. Although me
> being a new linux
> convert might have a lot to do with it. If you are
> interested in something
> better than the regular inbuilt graphics chips, I would
> suggest you look in
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=category&item=Graphics%20Cards
> 
> Hope this helps
> -- 
> Suvayu

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buy it, install it, if it doesn't work, get a refund

otherwise you can talk forever


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