Best Graphics Cards for Linux

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MSI Geforce 9400GT

$67.00 Est. at Amazon

from Porter, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: it didn't come with linux drivers on the disk, companies should all do this, but what are you going to do?
from Yui Snape, www.newegg.com
installation under ubuntu linux hardy heron (8.04) was a painless snap.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
my integrated ati radeon 3000 sputtered playing 720p video avi files, this upgrade made 720p perfectly smooth, linux 3d desktop effects rock, powers my 1920 x 1200 screen easily.low power consumption
from Brian, www.newegg.com
pros: redhat linux enterprise server 5.3 autosenses this card.works good.
from wrongodongo, www.newegg.com
pros: works with linux.

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Positives: Great Affordability, Easy To Install, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

2 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for LINUX

MSI Geforce 8400GS

$42.00 Est. at Amazon

from rbalik, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: adobe flash player for linux seems to have a bug where if you have a similar setup it won't put the fullscreen view on the tv, it always puts it on the primary display.
from The Duke, www.newegg.com
works great with linux.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
worked fine with both the nv and nvidia linux drivers.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
plays well in linux.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: relatively cheap, supported by linux cons: none other thoughts: bought 8 of these because needed to have dvi output on new dell optiplexes and built in cards only have vga.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 256 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS, Display Interface: DVI x 1, Card Interface: PCI Express

3 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for LINUX

EVGA 512-P3-N954-TR GeForce 9500 GT

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from thaltek, www.newegg.com
download nvidia's latest linux driver for it and run package install under terminal......
from Lee, www.newegg.com
haven't tried it with linux yet, but i'm optimistic because of nvidia's reputation for linux compatibility.
from Bill, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i use this on linux w/ the 177 driver.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
plus the linux drivers for nvidia can't be beat!
from N/A, www.newegg.com
supported in linux cons: havent found any.

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Positives: Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT, Display Interface: DVI x 2, Output Interface: TV Out

4 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for LINUX

SPARKLE Computer GeForce 9400 GT Video Card

SPARKLE Computer Sparkle GeForce 9400 GT Video Card -, (512 MB) DDR2, PCI Express 2.0, Dual Link DVI, HDCP Capable, HDTV

$43.00 Est. at Amazon

from Marcus, www.newegg.com
works perfectly with linux using proprietary drivers.5.
from ataraxia, www.newegg.com
fanless.good linux support.
from Cyb, www.newegg.com
100% stableand best of all, works perfect in linux with latest nvidia drivers cons: much slower than next model up, geforce 9600 other thoughts: if you want game performance and don't
from Arvonn, www.newegg.com
pros: silent, seemless linux support (ubuntu 9.04), good choice for my older sn25p linux box.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB, Graphic Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT, Display Interface: DVI-I (dual link) x 1

5 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for LINUX

Sapphire 11132-17-20R

$153.00 Est. at Amazon

from Silverwolf, www.newegg.com
i run a dual boot machine with linux mepis on the other drive and i bought this sapphire product because it has linux drivers available at the amd site.
from sweetsinse, www.newegg.com
the only exception being that i run linux only (except for cs) and the ati driver has issues with the 1.6 x.org release.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: on linux, the open-source drivers always end up giving me the dreaded white screen of death.the proprietary linux drivers from ati work well with the card, but can be a little tricky to install

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Positives: Great Affordability, Quiet Operation, Fast, Installed Memory: 1 GB

SAPPHIRE 100245L RADEON HD 4850

$388.00 Est. at Amazon

from GhettoDuk, www.newegg.com
still have some mystery driver that is not installing.linux was painless but i don't game on linux.
from MadAlice, www.newegg.com
able to run 3d apps in linux just fine.
from KFriede, www.newegg.com
cons: doesn't do well with linux.

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Positives: Great Affordability, Quiet Operation, Fast, Installed Memory: 512 MB

Sapphire PCIe 2.0 HD3870

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from marginoferror, www.newegg.com
ati linux drivers are mediocre as usual.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
linux compatibility is iffy at best.
from GnuLogic, www.newegg.com
pros: works flawlessly with ubuntu gnu/linux to include 3d acceleration for first person shooters.

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Positives: Excellent Affordability, Fast, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 512 MB

eVGA 512-P3-E959-TR

$86.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it worked perfectly, installed on linux (mandriva) as well as windows xp 64bit without a hitch.
from eagano, www.newegg.com
pros: excellent card - works with the nvidia-180 linux driver out of the box.

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Positives: Good Affordability, Easy To Install, Fast, Installed Memory: 1 GB

SAPPHIRE 100265HDMI RADEON HD 4830

$95.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
it should be noted though that the linux drivers aren't great and have some problems with resizing video while compiz is running.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i have no issues with this issue other than when i ran my ubuntu that i had installed before install it got a little testy but i did a fresh install of linux via the windows installer
from rec, www.newegg.com
pros: very capable cardvery good pricerecognized by windows 7 out of box cons: does not play well with linux.

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Positives: Quiet Operation, Nice Affordability, Great Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

$276.00 Est. at Amazon

from dibl, www.newegg.com
cons: memory clock default of 100mhz causes a horrid flicker with linux x server -- overclocking must be enabled to allow the memory clock to be reset to 300mhz, then it is fine.
from twolf, www.newegg.com
pros: great performance in linux with dual monitors and stays cool.

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Positives: Excellent Affordability, Nice Performance, Quiet Operation, Installed Memory: 896 MB

Sapphire RADEON HD 3650

$68.00 Est. at Amazon

from dorsaiian, www.newegg.com
mine runs fine on 32-bit linux ubuntu; have only tried one game under linux, (fighter ace) and it ran okay, just not as good as xp.satisfied enough with this card to order another for sli; hard to
from dorsaiian, www.newegg.com
upgraded from the hd2800xt that originally came in my gateway, which was a decent basic card...this one blows it out of the water, runs well on linux ubuntu as well.
from McWongski, www.newegg.com
also, nvidia is typically easier to use with linux, but i only run linux on server platforms where i rarely add an after market video card.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
right now, this is also a good card for linux - you can get good gl video quality without much hassle.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i also run windows xp windows sbs 2003 and linux in vm ware.

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Positives: Nice Affordability, Good Performance, Great Software Controls, Installed Memory: 512 MB

512 MB Sapphire RADEON HD4650 DDR2 VGA/DVI/HDMI

$60.00 Est. at Amazon

from te4, www.newegg.com
linux open source support is not completely there yet for this card, but the ati proprietory one supports this card if you can get it to work.
from Luffy®, www.newegg.com
i don't see a official driver for linux but they have a windows 7 driver on sapphire website.
from wadesmart, www.newegg.com
it works through post and the windows boot process (or linux boot process), but once the drivers initialize, there's no output over hdmi at all in win7 or linux without having a monitor connected

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Positives: Great Affordability, Quiet Operation, Excellent Performance, Installed Memory: 512 MB

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EVGA 512-P3-N954-TR GeForce 9500 GT

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SAPPHIRE 100245L RADEON HD 4850

Sapphire PCIe 2.0 HD3870

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SAPPHIRE 100265HDMI RADEON HD 4830

EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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