[linux-audio-user] which graphics card?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Jun 24 13:37:11 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 12:05 -0400, Rob wrote:
> On Sat June 24 2006 07:53, tim hall wrote:
> > should not be ignored. I will point out that I'm still using a
> > Voodoo3, the driver for which I fully expect to disappear into
> > obsolescence anytime soon unfortunately. Then I will have to
> > do some soul-searching.
> 
> We had to run out and get a cheap nvidia card for my partner's 
> workstation (go ahead, try to find a card in a brick and mortar 
> shop that's neither ATI or Nvidia, and that 6 year old Matrox 
> card your local boardbender hasn't been able to sell all this 
> time doesn't count) after I installed Mandriva 2006 and 
> discovered that it would no longer do 3D acceleration on his 
> voodoo3, so that day may already be here depending on your 
> distro.

I call that a bug, and would have replaced the distro, not the hardware.

Lee




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