I agree with the above...
when i built my AMD Phenom II Quad I decided to go with ATI Radeon HD 5570 w/1gig DDR 3..supports DX11.. "all upgradable" (Hence below it says ATI device)
The wonderful thing with Peppermint is that I have had no need to install the OEM drivers
it just all worked... though it would have been nice to see the software that came with it... but meh! no loss... probably would need it for windows.. hehe
Thought this may be helpful ::
System: Host #-desktop Kernel 2.6.32-22-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Peppermint
CPU: Quad core AMD Phenom II X4 955 (SMP) cache 2048 KB flags (sse4a nx lm svm) bmips 6428.6
Clock Speeds: (1) 803.577 MHz (2) 803.577 MHz (3) 803.577 MHz (4) 803.577 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI Device 68d9 X.Org 1.7.6 Res:
[email protected] GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 ATI Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] driver HDA Intel
Card-2 nVidia MCP61 High Definition Audiodriver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card nVidia MCP61 Ethernet driver forcedeth at port d480
Disks: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (0.5% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3320620A 320.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 284G used: 1.6G (1%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 10.84GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 151 Uptime 57 min Memory 184.4/3529.3MB Client Shell inxi 1.3.2