Yep, been there, done that. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com>wrote: > Before you try a new card, have you tried installing nvidia's Linux > drivers? (http://www.nvidia.com/Download or possibly in your > distribution's software repository.) It could be your not taking full > advantage of your GPU due to driver/configuration issue, and if that's the > case a new video card wouldn't fix it. > > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > >> I really can't make sense of the whole video card debate. On the one >> hand, Linus has blasted Nvidia, but for a long time I thought they >> were preferred among Linux users. > > > Nvidia hasn't released the technical information needed to create open > source drivers, instead releasing their own binary only drivers with > varying degrees of stability. Even so, nvidia was still the best option for > 3D acceleration under Linux for a long time. > > -- > Andrew Zbikowski > http://andy.zibnet.us/ > Live every week like it's Shark Week. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130102/01bda114/attachment.html>