graphics cards

Posted Sep 25, 2006 14:59 UTC (Mon) by mingo (subscriber, #31122)
In reply to: DRM is not evil, just useless. by obi
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

I need a desktop graphics card to do my job. Which one do I choose to "vote with my feet" or even "punish with my feet" - as you put it?

i'm using ATI cards with free drivers, or Intel cards. Intel has caught up recently and has put their whole 3D stack under the GPL, see: Intel Linux Graphics . ORG.

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graphics cards

Posted Sep 26, 2006 22:28 UTC (Tue) by obi (guest, #5784) [Link]

With ATI the best you can do is an X850, which is in theory still supported with the relatively new R300 driver. I've got a number of R200 and R300-class hardware, but when I look around to replace these there's very little options available to me.

Well, maybe I'm a bit impatient - maybe there will be an effort to reverse-engineer the latest generations too.

However, the question was which manufacturer do I reward for being a good open-specs or open-driver citizen. Considering there's an R300 driver in spite of ATI, not thanks to ATI, I find it hard to justify sending cash their way.

ATI, 3dfx, Matrox and others used to be good, now they're not anymore. Intel is the only "good" one (minus a few tiny niggles), and one I'd recommend in a flash provided they have a graphics product that sort of matches your needs, however it often doesn't.

(I refer to my other post on intel graphics here: http://lwn.net/Articles/201235/ )