OT: Accelerated 3D GFX cards with Free drivers (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: The best distro for music creation)

studio-64 fsmith at walescomputers.co.uk
Thu Dec 15 04:22:50 EST 2005



Sean Edwards wrote:
> My experience is at best anecdotal, but my VooDoo 3D
> AGP card has been supported for a few years; too bad
> they are out of business now.  Tux Racer and Chromium
> scream across my screen on just have a K7 500Mhz with
> 768 MB RAM.
> 
> I don't know if anybody remembers getting nvidia cards
> to work under RedHat 7.1 or 7.2, but the instructions
> included "patching" (more like creating a memory hole)
> in the kernel for the card to work.  Comparing old
> apples to old apples, I prefer my VooDoo 3D.
> 
> Rather than going out to get the latest and greatest
> hardware, I tend to look first at what is currently
> supported under Linux.  It may not be the newest, but
> at least it will work, and usually work well.  Code
> maturity is important when considering hardware
> drivers.
> 
> Currently, I am trying to decide between an RME
> Hammerfall and an M-Audio Delta 1010 audio card.  Just
> as the 3D provides video performance, the RME
> Hammerfall does the same for audio, off loading the
> audio processing away from the main cpu.  The alsa
> project also says both cards are supported.
> 
HI I would have to say the RME on this, its
supported on Linux (no control panel as such yet)
but jack shows all what you need.

As you say it just runs very well for Multitrack.

Cheers
Bob




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> 
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