Hmmm. Data Center? Desktop responsive? I'm not sure what you want to run but any old card should give a reasonable response.
I use garbage and have not had a real problem with Red Hat or Debian. My fanciest card is an "NVIDIA Riva TNT2 (generic)" which gives me 1280x1024 pixel display at 59.9 Hz refresh. On a 650 MHz Athlon, it plays Quake II in X without skipping frames. I've run Data Explorer on a nicer computer with a lesser card. My ugliest card is a 256kB ISA nasty. Would you believe that it works and that I still have it's box? It's been replaced by a Sis card. Only the TNT2 gets a monitor and all is well for me. The wife gets a Sis and Red Hat 7.2 runs it at 1024x768 without tweeking. Fancy stuff has made problems for me. I still have not made an ATI capture card I bought last year work, though I have not tried lately. A quick google search looked bad. If you don't find it here: http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html it might be more trouble than it's worth. Yes, I'm lazy but I have beautiful Eterms and wallpaper. Have a flower: http://www.hillnotes.org/photo/best_flowers/ On 2003.03.20 05:56 Cleve Allison wrote: > Ok guys, > I'm looking for suggestions. > I'm not opposed to hearing that I am going in completely the wrong > direction and need to rethink this platform and head in a different direction. > > About to build Another new system. Planning on an Athlon XP 2200+, 2 x 256 > Corsair PC2700 SDRAM, nforce2 board, and want a video card that is as > compatible as possible with RH .......I'm not a gamer, won't be watching > DVD's but I do like my screen to refresh nice and fast. > > I guess what I need to know is .......does anyone have any suggestions on > which nforce2 mainboards I should specifically go for and/or run from and > the same thing for video cards that fit my non-gaming but very desktop > responsive needs. I will be using this system with Redhat 7.1, 7.3, and > 8.1 (using psyche3 currently). > These are the versions of RH that we use in our data center so I am > specifically targeting them. > > Will the nforce2 chipsets freak out RH 7.1 and 7.3 since it has the > built-in almost everything. > > Although, I will be compiling my own everything in a couple of > months......our data center simply installs and runs As Is, thus that is > what I will be doing initially and that being the case I suppose the > mainboard and video cards I select should have the best drivers implemented > from the get go. > > Last but not least........has anyone had any experience yet that they can > share with the KT400 chipset mainboards and Linux. > > whatayathink???? > > Thanks, > Cleve > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
