Cheap-ish video card recommendation

[Dan Ritter]

> >> Again, this doesn't have to be anything fancy, since I'm not doing
> >> gaming on it.  I would even consider a used one.
> > 
> > For an AGP motherboard and MythTV, you want either an NVideo
> > 5200 or a PCI 8400. The first can do XvMC, and the second can do
> > VDPAU. The 5200 will be cheaper; you can get a fanless one from
> > NewEgg for about $30.
> 
> Hmm.  My schedule for tomorrow has changed and I can sneak out to 
> Microcenter.  They don't appear to have a PCI 8400 card, though that 
> would have been cool (never knew what VDPAU was until a few minutes ago).
> 
> The one thing I'm fuzzy on, and am finding conflicting information on, 
> is Linux with different OpenGL versions and DirectX versions.  I take it 
> that DirectX isn't used by Linux programs, and even if I set it up as 
> dual boot that DirectX 9 would be fine.

Correct: Linux doesn't know what DirectX is.

> I see cards that support OpenGL 1.4, 2.0, and "ICD".  It looks like ICD 
> works with Linux (never heard of ICD before either), but would 1.4 work? 
>   I see some references to Linux being behind on OpenGL releases anyway.

OpenGL is usable with Linux, and the NVidia drivers provide an
adequate implementation of it. An ICD is a Windows term for "has
a driver", and isn't relevant to Linux.

-dsr-

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