[LAU] Suggested video card

[Dave Robillard]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 00:11 +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
> On 8/12/07, Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > I have a 64bit machine with a AMD sempron processor carried by a
> > motherboard with one of those 'all in blunder' combined sound and
> > graphics chipsets (sis) in a low-profile case. I'm not concerned about
> > the sound as I don't use it for mastering, just office work and
> > noodling around with audio.
> >
> > It seems that current drivers for this chipset are buggy as I get all
> > sorts of graphics nasties with debian etch, 64studio, PClinuxOS,
> > mandriva (you get the general idea). Oddly a very old version of
> > Mandrake has no problems nor does the 0.9 version of 64studio.
> >
> > What I would like to do is find a reasonable quality, quiet, low profile
> > graphics card that definitely has working drivers.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Intel is the only graphic card manufacturer that I know of that
> provide full specs of there card so devs can actually develop a _real_
> driver, without spending years to reverse engineer stuff. The
> consequence is simple : intel cards run better than huge nvidia or ati
> cards. They are also lower profile and much cheaper.

Is Intel making PCI cards yet?

I have one in my laptop, the only modern cards without Evil Inside(TM)
that work right out of the box on any recent distro.  Support Intel,
they support us ;)

Sure would be nice to have a PCI-E one to stick in the desktop....

-DR-