Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time

Posted Dec 15, 2006 6:02 UTC (Fri) by tjw.org (guest, #20716)
In reply to: Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time

Personally, I use the nvidia driver because the nv driver can't do dual-head, but I'd buy any new (reasonably cheap) graphics card that can give me dual-head DVI at 3200x1200 with a free driver.

I'm looking for the same solution myself and the new Intel offering (G965 chipset) looks pretty good.

This is an on-board only graphics chip and you won't find a motherboard that has dual-dvi, but you can use what's called an ADD2 card in the PCI-E slot to use dual-dvi with the on-board graphics chip:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815133002

The only things holding me back are the fact that this chipset and boards that use it require a bleeding-edge kernel and Xorg/glx to work and that I have found very little in the way of testimonials of people using this configuration.

However, it's great to see Intel's effort for open Linux drivers. They even appear to be funding Xorg development for their drivers:

http://www.intellinuxgraphics.com/team.html