AMD GPU support is pretty good these days, in my experience. The OSS drivers also work well enough for me to forgo the proprietary ones (usually), specifically because using xrandr is easier to me than the ATI Control Center. I have three monitors with a resolution of 4960x1600 with one AMD card on the OSS drivers and can still do 3d pretty well. (Better 3D with the proprietary ones) I'd recommend any newer AMD card with the OSS drivers, else you really can't go wrong with nVidia. On Jan 1, 2013 11:14 AM, "Jeremy MountainJohnson" < jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > Forgot to mention, AMD GPU in my experience has been terrible in > Linux. I haven't went with them in 10 years because of their Linux > support. With my distro you have to stay behind kernel releases just > to get the dated AMD proprietary drivers to compile- not sure how the > open source has been going though. > > -- > Jeremy MountainJohnson > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson > <jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year Luggers and Jon, > > > > Pretty much all NVIDIA cards do well in Linux with proprietary > > drivers (getting about middle of the road with open source nouveau), > > so sticking with a few models later than your 6150 would be helpful. > > If you want a decent upgrade that isn't high end or too much overkill, > > the 550 ti has been great for me and I still use it (I game a little > > with the Linux beta of Steam and a few classic GL games). It may be > > more than you need (around $100 - $150 online new). > > > > Better yet, keep your card, save your money, and switch to a different > > desktop environment like XFCE or LXDE. I use XFCE with compositing > > turned off and it does extremely well on all my Linux systems both low > > and high end GPUs. Gnome3 is trying to squeeze in pretty effects (IMHO > > failing at being pretty- reminds me of Taylor Swift's hair style last > > night at Times Square) to run on all hardware and I think the fallback > > is or has gone away from being supported. Not sure if it's hard to > > switch to XFCE with Ubuntu since I don't use it- perhaps others on the > > list have some insight? > > > > Good luck. Also, if you go the route of upgrading video cards- perhaps > > noting the revision of your PCIE slot would also help the list make a > > better recommendation suited for your system. > > > > -- > > Jeremy MountainJohnson > > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > >> > >> I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 built on my motherboard. I don't do 3D > stuff, no gaming, no major graphics. I'm running Ubuntu in Gnome Classic > mode without effects. I'm still getting really high CPU load from Xorg > doing many things. So I'm looking for an inexpensive PciE graphics card to > replace my onboard one. Any suggestions for cards that are well supported > by Linux, particularly Ubuntu? > >> > >> Thanks, Jon > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130101/2fef41d5/attachment.html>