a few random hardware questions (slightly OT)

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 23:53 -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> I'll probably be looking for an 8x AGP card with 128Mb+ of RAM. I
> usually prefer ATI products, but in the past I only had Windows
> support to worry about. Their All-In-Wonder stuff is intriguing, but I
> haven't even started researching Linux support for that.

The All-In-Wonder video cards generally work fine.  However, the newer
ones only have 3D support with the closed source driver.  Video capture
stuff on the All-In-Wonders doesn't really work.  However, there is an
announcement coming up from ATI soon about their video cards and linux.
We don't know what it is though (obviously we probably won't until they
anounce it).  All-in-All, the ATI cards while not as fully functional as
the NVIDIA cards in linux, have much better open source driver support.
(ie. NVIDIA basically has no decent open source drivers)

Nathaniel