Green Graphics Adapter Recommendation

[darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org (David Rosenstrauch)]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:51 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> I just bought a nice, cheap, low-end pcie2.0 graphics card for a box I 
>> built a couple of months ago:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102724
>>
>> It's pretty green, since it doesn't have a fan (cools by heatsink only) 
>> and thus uses less power.
>>
>> 2 caveats though:
>>
>> 1) it might be hard to find (Newegg no longer sells it), and
>>
>> 2) not sure how the Linux support is for this; I used it for our Windows 
>> desktop
> 
> Radeon HD support, particularly for >2000 series, I believe is still
> shaky at best, unless you're using the proprietary fglrx blob (though I
> seem to recall that not being updated for ages a little while back
> too...). I'd stick to something older, particularly if its for a machine
> running a non-bleeding-edge distro.

If the OP doesn't mind using a closed source driver, it does look like 
this card is supported via fglrx:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=975&num=1

DR