Monodevelop and video card recommedations

Pavel Shevchuk stlwrt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 14:28:57 UTC 2008


Intel cards is the only sane choice if you want free driver AND good 3D

P.S. Next time please split problems to several mails, so discussion
can branch nicely

On 4/29/08, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Paul F. Johnson <paul <at> all-the-johnsons.co.uk> writes:
>  > 1. Can anyone recommend an AGP card which will allow me to run 3D graphics
>  > without using non-GPL drivers? I want to move away from nVidia for the time
>  > being. Nothing against their cards, just that to use 3D, I need to use their
>  > drivers.
>
>
> Radeons with at most a R4xx series chipset. In marketing numbers, that's the
>  ones without an "X" (e.g. 7000 (R1xx), 9200, 9250 (R2xx), 9500, 9550 (R3xx)),
>  the "X" ones up to and including X850 and the "X1050" which is just a reedited
>  X300/X550/X600 series card (R3xx series chipset, unlike the X850 which is an
>  R4xx).
>
>  Careful, the "X" ones are primarily PCI-Express, though there are AGP versions
>  of some of them.
>
>  WARNING: Stay clear of anything with a higher number than X1050, those are R5xx
>  or R6xx series cards and not supported by Free 3D drivers yet. You have been
>  warned.
>
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
>
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