I am running RedHat 8.0 with a Matrox G450 dual head and it works wonderfully for desktop applications considering that you can get this card for <$100. I tried and tried to get a ATI card to work in a dual head mode with RH8 and gave up and bought this card. Matrox has good linux support. It took me about 15 minutes to get proper dual head configurations out of the box.
As far as the nforce boards, I have ALWAYS been partial to ABIT for motherboards. They are absolutely rock solid. You might pay about $20 more, but I HAVE NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS with them in a 24x7x365 environment. Shannon will hill wrote: >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 It's been replaced by a Sis card.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 >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
