[Ubuntu PA] Cheap cards for 3D desktop

[Alex Launi]

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Are you familiar with the dohickey project? You may want to check it out
and contribute there rather than create something new.

Alex Gretlein wrote:
> I've been working on an application similar to this. The idea is that
> it lets users insert information about components that "just work" off
> the shelf - with little or minimum configuration. My initial idea was
> for USB peripherals - ink jet printers, web cams, and the like. Video
> cards could be accommodated with some modification.
> 
> The premise is that the lists on the Ubuntu wiki are a mess,
> information of varying worth is scattered around the forums and
> elsewhere in random locations, and the databases like linuxprinting
> and linux-usb are great for problem solving but awful for shopping. By
> eliminating the constraints of Wiki syntax and the desire to document
> everything which works or doesn't, I'm hoping to be able to produce
> something that one could just look at an then easily order cheap
> components known to work, and not require you to futz around with
> Grandma's xorg.conf before you leave after Thanksgiving.
> 
> If it works, I would definitely take it upon myself to move the
> information "upstream," which in my mind means the Community Docs,
> right now, but I suppose that there could be other useful places to
> put it.
> 
> Alex Gretlein
> 
>>> Perfect for a page on our wiki.
>> I think it would be great to start an information page
>> on our wiki, based on our experiences, but once we get
>> real data it should be fed upstream so that users
>> everywhere will have access to the information.
>>
>> Where upstream can be determined once we have data to
>> send.
> 

- -- Alex Launi
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