[Eug-lug] good (low-end) graphics card?

[Garl Grigsby]

BB wrote:
> Ubuntu has released a multimedia flavored distribution, have you heard 
> anything on that?  
Are you referring to Linux Mint? If so it's based on Ubuntu but it's not 
released by the Canonical. When I looked at it last it was Ubuntu + 
pretty much every media codec available for linux, legal or not, on it.

> I'm going to need that 3D acceleration, for my work, at some point.
>
> That point is coming up fast!
>
If you need real 3D then you are, at this point, going to have to binary 
drives. For that, you want nVidia. Stay away from ATI at the moment, 
unless you like pain.
> Brian
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Mr O <notanatheist at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:notanatheist at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Gabe, what motherboard do you have? I run an 8800GT flawlessly.
>     What distro? If you're using Ubuntu I'd recommend Envy to
>     install the Nvidia driver. I've never had an issue on Slackware,
>     Gentoo, or Arch (my current desktop distro) running any decent
>     cards.
>
>     That be all,
>     Mr O.
>
>     --- Gabriel Merritt <gabemage at yahoo.com
>     <mailto:gabemage at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>      Now I'm running an 8600 GT and
>     > have problems with the native Nvidia driver due to
>     > incompatibilities with my mother board.  I can still use it
>     > under Linux, but no 3D acceleration.
>     >
>     > Hope this helps!
>     >
>     > - Gabriel
>     >
>
>
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