[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:06:34AM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> It's a shame, isn't it?
> 
> Looking at Newegg as an example, there are the two obvious ones - NVidia and 
> ATI.  Then there are Ageia, SiS, and XGI.  Ageia makes those PhysX cards, so 
> not a real video card, but added processing power.  XGI released open source 
> drivers [1], but I don't know the quality of the drivers or the cards.  Now I 
> can't tell, but doesn't it look like SiS's drivers for linux [2] are the open 
> source drivers?  It seems so, but I don't know if that means they recommend 
> the open source ones, or if they have contributed drivers.
> 
> I think contacting XGI is a worthwhile effort, I'm going to test that route... 
> I'll post up what I find out.


Whem was the last SiS card produced?

Ruben

> 
> -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin
> 
> [1] http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/13/158226.shtml
> [2] http://www.sis.com/support/support_faqs_16.htm
> 
> On Monday 06 November 2006 07:49, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > 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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