On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 00:11 +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: > On 8/12/07, Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> 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- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
