I currently have a 8800GTS, and http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114858 + unreliable suspend is driving me nuts, I dont use 3d at all, and I haven't in a while, so I figure a 20-30$ ATI card might work well for me.
What I need is good 2d performance, compiz, suspend 2 ram and tvout. And I'd much prefer using the GPL'd driver.
Is there a cheap ATI card I can pickup and have work "out of the box"? I've looked around a bit, and it seems radeonhd doesn't have tvout? So I'm stuck with the older cards radeon supports, which arnt neccesarly that easy to find. Note that my system is fairly new, so agp is out of the picture.
I have an old 9200 PCI card I tried, but it seems to be too slow to push compiz at 1920x1200 resolution. Dragging a firefox window around pushes up X cpu usage considerably, and I can feel the lag.
What I need is good 2d performance, compiz, suspend 2 ram and tvout. And I'd much prefer using the GPL'd driver.
Is there a cheap ATI card I can pickup and have work "out of the box"? I've looked around a bit, and it seems radeonhd doesn't have tvout? So I'm stuck with the older cards radeon supports, which arnt neccesarly that easy to find. Note that my system is fairly new, so agp is out of the picture.
I have an old 9200 PCI card I tried, but it seems to be too slow to push compiz at 1920x1200 resolution. Dragging a firefox window around pushes up X cpu usage considerably, and I can feel the lag.
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