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nickej
05-19-2007, 04:03 PM
A few weeks ago I tried to switch over a drive on one of my older systems to Ubuntu, just to play around with open-source and Blender. I ran into some insoluble (to someone like me) problems, primarily because of my ATI FireGL8800 video card and the drivers available.

In general I like the card, but given its age I would imagine that I could get an equivalent card nowadays for a relatively small amount. My question is, what card would you recommend as being particularly open-source friendly as well as having equivalent or better poly-pushing abilities to the FireGL 8800?
carnageRPM
05-19-2007, 04:17 PM
As far as i know N-vidia is a strong suppoerter of Linux so most of there drivers have been released for Linux Dev to work with. I did find some info >> here (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=ULR&q=+site:blenderartists.org+nvidia+linux+blender)
the bad new is that posted on blenderartists.org SoOoOo you will have to wait till monday to view it.
fktt
05-19-2007, 04:20 PM
eh, indeed, anything nvidia..! ati actually warns people of their linux drivers and sayes that those should only be used if you cant find anything better.. :(
masater
05-19-2007, 06:10 PM
Intel has provided a full open source driver, so as for now the intel card is the best choise for linux, as far as we consider support and usability of card feathures. But as we all know those intel cards are not too fast :), So I think that Nvidia card is the best choise right now.
StefanA
05-19-2007, 06:35 PM
I use both a nVidia Quadro4 750 XGL (agp) and a GeForce 7800GT (PCI-X) that works great under linux. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04, but these cards also worked on Ubuntu 6.06 and Fedora Core 4.

regards
stefan andersson
sijp
05-20-2007, 09:28 AM
eh, indeed, anything nvidia..! ati actually warns people of their linux drivers and sayes that those should only be used if you cant find anything better.. :(

Well, actually AMD recently annouced they will open their drivers:
http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/

So maybe there is a future for this cards under linux :)
fktt
05-20-2007, 09:25 PM
well future, of-corse, but at the present.. :(
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