> Well the NVidia cards are nice also. ;)  If you don't like ATI then go for a
> nice cheap GeForce 2MX.

My primary concern in any new video card is how well it will play out with
DRI.  DVD is just possibly forcing my hand a little earlier.  We'll see if
I can get it to work without an OS upgrade.


> > (With AGP cards as cheap as they are, there's no reason for me to buy
> > another PCI card.  I've just been delaying the switch to AGP because I
> > couldn't really get much benefit from it.  I figured that DRI would be the
> > natural way to take advantage of a "real" video card.)
>
> DRI is for OpenGL support.  I don't believe it matters much for the video
> overlay or whatever that ogle / mplayer would use.

Of course.  (^&


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