New Linux Box

[Lead Head]

Crap ... are there any good cards that are not nVidia or ATI that have HW accel without the need for non-free drivers ?

SiS? Trident? XGI?

[cymon]

He said good cards.

[solemnwarning]

yup voodoo got bought up by nVidia around ~2000. I think their last card was the voodoo 5, i think it had something like 4 GPUs on it.

I have a voodoo 5, its not bad but its crap if you try and run any new games on it, i would say it has 4 GPU's since it has more fans then my nVidia GeForce6 6600GT

[H_TeXMeX_H]

SiS doesn't sound like a "good" card ... XGI looks decent ... most benchmarks go in favor of nVidia over XGI tho ... nVidia >> ATI >> XGI in most benchmarks ... Trident is  difficult to find ... it probably sux

So ... any "good" cards ? Or is nVidia the only real video card ?

[piratePenguin]

Some people might actually think this bug is a good thing, I wonder what piratePenguin thinks.

I think RMS has been at the Linux code again :p

[Lead Head]

SiS doesn't sound like a "good" card ... XGI looks decent ... most benchmarks go in favor of nVidia over XGI tho ... nVidia >> ATI >> XGI in most benchmarks ... Trident is  difficult to find ... it probably sux

So ... any "good" cards ? Or is nVidia the only real video card ?

XGI probably has the best linux support though.

I also find it odd that they are benching the 5950 with a 9600XT when the 5950 was the 9800XTs competitor.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/ATI_Buys_XGI_2

[Orethrius]

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/ATI_Buys_XGI_2

...links to this article which shows nothing definitive yet.  Then again, I've yet to verify by ATi Press Release...

EDIT: Indeed, sad, yet true.  I hope this doesn't impact their decision to make FOSS drivers.