All I know of is the 3D Labs Realizm 800 and Matrox based cards aside from that of Ati and Nvidia.

Does anyone know of PCI Express video cards that are not based on ATI or Nvidia drivers?

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Not much to choose from, Matrox is the only other semi-decent manufacturer I'm aware of... 3D labs you hear next to nothing from these days..

Is there a reason you do not want ATI or nVidia ? nVidia support is pretty good in Linux if you don't mind installing the proprietary drivers.

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It would be great to have more choices, and competition.

Diamond and Creative Labs used to make their own cards; they too are assimilated. S3 is a nice one but it's out of the picture by not being Nvidia or Ati based, and at the same time it is trying to be like Nvidia and Ati.

It's as though Linux is getting a corporate squeeze, first by the software world, and secondly by the hardware world that no matter what one can say about Linux, Linux will be tough to get fully started. If this is true, those corporate manipulators are afraid of Linux.

The GPU wars have been going on a long time.. it was a sad day when Voodoo Labs was bought out and shut down, cutting the serious competitors from 3 down to two. 3D labs, and Matrox have not kept up tin the high end #d gaming market and have sorta fallen by the wayside.. S3 well I never really saw much from them i liked to begin with..

Intel on the other hand has started pushing into the GPU market a bit harder, mostly integrated budget GPU's rather than serious gaming type, but they have pledged Open Source drivers for their chips..

The graphics game is a tough market, maybe more so than the CPU wars..

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These days GPU or now VPU are a lot more complex than main processors even when comparing Intel drawing board plans for a teraflop processor. For a company to start in the video card business, they need a lot of money and well experience VPU designers and programmers that were working for either nVidia or ATI.

Diamond and Creative Labs neither create their own video cards. They just based their video cards on nVidia or ATI chips.

I am sorry to say that you only have two choices for high performance video accelerators. One is nVidia and the other is AMD-ATI. I recommend using nVidia based video cards to ease installation. ATI always have worst software, so I do not know how reliable and stable the software is compared to nVidia since AMD bought ATI.

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