{"id":2513,"date":"2011-05-18T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.databook.bz\/?page_id=2513"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:50:58","slug":"video-hardware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=2513","title":{"rendered":"Video Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different video adapters available and choosing one that is well supported can sometimes be a challenge. Bill Farrow of the Triangle Linux Users Group (<a title=\"Triangle Linux Users Group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trilug.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TriLUG<\/a>) provides a very concise summary of three companies video adapters and his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Intel is an active contributer to Xorg, they provide GPL drivers for their chipsets and developers who work on improving Xorg.<\/p>\n<p>ATI provides a proprietary driver (fglrx) for their graphics chips, and they now release their docs to Xorg developers which has lead[sic] to better GPL drivers (radeon).<\/p>\n<p>NVidia only provides a proprietary driver that works very well, except when upgrading your Linux OS.\u00a0 There is an open source 3d driver (vouveau) being developed through reverse engineering.<\/p>\n<p>I am running all three.\u00a0 Nvidia on my MythTV box so that I get h\/w video playback acceleration, ATI at work with multiple monitors, and Intel on my quad core desktop.<\/p>\n<p>If you want really fast 3D graphics and don&#8217;t care about running proprietary code at kernel level, go with Nvidia.\u00a0 If you want open source code, good performance, community support, go with Intel or ATI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different video adapters available and choosing one that is well supported can sometimes be a challenge. Bill Farrow of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) provides a very concise summary of three companies video adapters and his&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=2513\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":402,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2513\/revisions\/3109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}