New system for ubuntu - recommended display hardware?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:11:24PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > What are the 'easiest' display chips to use nowadays?  My current
> > system has an Nvidia card which is fairly well supported but has
> > caused me a few hiccoughs.  Is the Nvidia as easy as it gets or is
> > there anything better?
> >
> > I'm not after amazing performance, I've no need to play games or
> > anything, but I do run a big[gish] display at 1600x1200 and I do want
> > to run Vmware or Virtualbox.
> 
> If you want to avoid the problems with proprietary drivers, look for Intel 
> chips. Those aren't necessarily very high performance, but they are well 
> supported by open source drivers. ATI and VIA are moving towards open 
> source drivers also but you will probably have to wait some more time 
> before their open source drivers are ready.
> 
Thanks, helpful.  Do Intel make display chips as well as everything
else?  My current motherboard is mostly Intel and was pretty OK.

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Chris Green