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From: Stéphane Teletchéa (steletch_at_biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 03:22:03 CDT

For the moment, i highly recommend nvidia-based cards, GPL drivers for others
cards are just not as efficient as the nvidia proprietary drivers.
For the stability problems, they are often related to the AGP drive, so one
can disable it, and it works quite well like this.
Stef

Le Vendredi 12 Avril 2002 19:27, John Stone a écrit :
> 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/firegl4linuxd
>rivers.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