[OTs] free video hardware

[A.J. Bonnema]

My experience with both ATI and nvidia is mixed. When it works, fine. 
But lately the closed source thing is becoming an issue (read the post 
of Sam Varshavchik (Re: X won't start) and you will see why),

My ATI card is getting me more trouble than it is worth, so I was 
wondering: which graphics cards have open source drivers and perform 
equalish to the latest ATI and nvidia cards? Is there a list of links to 
such cards?
I know someone mentioned Matrox, but I have no idea of which Matrox card 
is equivalent to for instance the ATI radeon 800 XL (the card I have).
I also tried the LinuxQuestion HCL (hardware compatibility list), but 
getting through all cards is *really* tedious and often the comments 
stored are quite old (look at the Matrox cards in there).

I am willing to buy a new card, just to get rid of the closed source issue.
Does anyone have a pointer?

Guus.

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A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
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