[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[Ruben Safir]

Its now a free software movement that can't reach the bash prompt any longer
without a piece of closed sourced software being used.  Thats pretty pathetic.

Ruben


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:42:58AM -0800, Adrian Noland wrote:
> I'm not sure this helps because I can't remember the name, and I don't believe
> they've actually produced anything yet, but there is a small company out there
> that is trying to do exactly this. There was a post to the kernel mail lists
> earlier this year asking if anybody would pay $300-$400 for such a card. 
> 
> Until then, I suggest nVidia, then Intel.
> 
> --- "Joseph M. Gaffney" <cucullin at wtfisthat.net> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm going to be building out a new A/V workstation for myself in the coming 
> > weeks, so I've been kind of putting together a package for myself.  The main 
> > issue I have right now is with video cards.  I *really* don't want to use ATI
> > 
> > or NVidia, I'd like to have something with completely OSS drivers... so I'd 
> > like Intel.  However, it seems to me all their graphics now are integrated, 
> > so no standalone intel vid cards... is that true?  Any other suggestions?  
> > I'd like to maintain my zeolotry if possible :)
> > 
> > -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin
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