[xubuntu-users] GDU

[Eric Christopherson]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:40:01 +0000
> Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > According to the supplier of the software any of the following units 
> > would be suitable:-
> > 
> > NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series, GeForce 9 Series, GeForce 100 Series,
> > GeForce 200 Series, GeForce 300 Series, GeForce 400 Series, GeForce
> > 500 Series, ATI Radeon HD2000 Series, Radeon HD3000 Series, Radeon
> > HD4000 Series, Radeon HD5000 Series, Radeon HD6000 Series.
> 
> Regarding to what cards are supported a search engine could help you.
> One note might be important, if you need the proprietary driver for the
> graphics, take care about the fact that proprietary ATI drivers only
> work for a few versions of X, the drivers never will be upgraded.

Would you care to elaborate on your claim about it only working on a few
versions of X, and give us a link to news about the proprietary ATI
drivers being discontinued? I haven't found anything like that.

> Proprietary NVIDI drivers get upgraded and should work with all versions
> of X. The FLOSS drivers usually don't cause issues, provide good enough
> 3D acceleration for averaged tasks, e.g. Google-Earth and running Xfce4
> doesn't cause issues, but if you e.g. want to run Cinnamon or GNOME,
> then the FLOSS 3D acceleration could be much to slow.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson