[quake3] icculus quake 3 very dark

Jean-Philippe skateinmars at momo.servegame.org
Mon Jun 12 07:02:41 EDT 2006


Lonnie Cumberland a écrit :
> Thanks for all of the great responses to my post and it appears that
> the over driving belief is that I should NEVER buy an ATI GFX card for
> my Linux box so I can go with that.
>
> Well, if that is the general consensus on ATI cards then what kind of
> cards do all of you recommend for great graphic on Linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Lonnie
>
> Daniel Lord wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 11, 2006, at 17:37, Zachary J. Slater wrote:
>>
>>> Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>>>> I guess that I need to get another video graphics accelerator card
>>>> that
>>>> will work with my Fedora 5 Xgl & Compiz.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a good suggestion for the kind of card that I
>>>> should get?
>>>>
>>>> I've heard that ATI cards are good but have never used them and
>>>> especially not with Linux Fedora.
>>>>
>>> Please do not buy an ati card, they run incredibly poorly in linux.
>>>
>>> --- Zachary J. Slater
>>> zakk at timedoctor.org
>>> zacharyslater at gmail.com
>>
>> In addition, pay close attention to the drivers available for the
>> platforms you care about BEFORE you buy  video card.
>> The fact of life is this: consoles are first, Windows Pc are second,
>> Macs are third, and Linux is last.
>> So you need to be very, very selective when you buy a GFX card you
>> intend to use under Linux or suffer through the agony and neglect of
>> using a 'niche market' platform.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> "I have never won a debate with an ignorant person."
>> -Ali ibn Abi Talib
>>
>>
>>
>
>
I heard a lot of good things about some intel video chipsets and free
drivers.
For the problem with Xgl, it should be solved with AIGLX integrated with
Xorg 7.1
We just have to wait for nvidia to make drivers for Xorg 7.1....



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