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“Video Card and X Server
“This is the most important part in Laptop which is used by X
Windows. However, selecting correct Video card is important;
otherwise you will end up with 3D hardware accelerated card with 2D
Linux driver or just basic display. So make sure your video card
with 3D acceleration is supported under Linux. Nvidia has pretty
good support with a proprietary driver which can deliver full 3D
acceleration with 24 bit color. On other hand ATI drivers are open
source. My advice is simple visit the following driver pages and
make sure your video card is fully supported including 3D
acceleration:* ATI/AMD Linux drivers
* Nvidia Linux drivers
* Linux Graphics drivers from Intel“Low End Video Cards
“The following list summaries low end fully supported Linux
video cards:
* Intel GMA 4500MHD
* Intel GMA 500
* Intel 945GM
* Intel 950 GMA
* Intel X3100 GMA
* NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M (256MB)”
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