best graphics card for "out of the box"

[Karl Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/19/2008 05:38 PM, Brett Johnson wrote:
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>> The best "out-of-box" experience is going to be Intel graphics, because
>> the Intel drivers are FOSS, and relatively stable.  Nvidia's binary-only
>> driver is generally considered to be of higher quality/stability than
>> ATI's binary-only driver (fglrx).  However, ATI/AMD have now opened up
>> the specs for their hardware, and a number of folks are working on a new
>> FOSS ATI driver (radeonhd).  I expect that within a year, this will put
>> ATI's out-of-box experience on-par with Intel's, as the radeonhd driver
>> gets more stable, and supports more hardware features (it doesn't yet
>> provide any 3d hardware acceleration, for example).  Nvidia has shown no
>> interest in opening up their driver/specs, so I expect that Nvidia cards
>> will have the worst out-of-box experience for the foreseeable future.
>>
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> Thanks for the info.
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    The very best is the one you can get working. That depends on your 
computer. My motherboard has a good nVidia video card and after fixing 
some problems I got the driver from the nVidia web page for this Ubuntu 
and it installed and I have true great video.

Karl


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