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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 12:27:41 CDT

Hi,
  To my knowledge, there are a very small selection of video boards
that provide good hardware acceleration on Linux. The NVida boards
provide very good performance on Linux, but you may have to use their
older drivers due to stability problems that seem to have cropped up
in their recent driver releases. I've heard that the high-end ATI
FireGL boards have Linux drivers, and that The 3DLabs cards may have
drivers available as well, but I have no personal experience with either
of those boards under Linux.

Here are links to the Linux driver pages I'm currently aware of for
each of these boards:
  http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
  http://www.ati.com/support/products/workstation/firegl4/linux/firegl4linuxdrivers.html
  http://www.3dlabs.com/support/drivers/index.htm (commercial drivers only?)

Let us know if you have more questions.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:36:49PM +0300, Emanuel Vamvakopoulos wrote:
> Hello dear users of VMD
>
> I am interesting to visualize a system of 100000 atoms.
>
> ( i tried to a pc with tnt2 and 192mb with relative pure result)
>
> i would like a proposal about which accellaration graphics card has
> optimum performance with VMD
> under linux.
>
> Thank you in advance
> E.Vamvakopoulos
>
> 

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