On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I find it hard to believe that noone is dealing with the what video card > do I get issue. I've provided my specs, Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard, > but noone so far has commented. I've also mentioned that I don't want > anything that requires proprietary Linux drivers, but again noone has > commented. I've even attempted to make the question easier by asking > what should I get into that is more modern, but still no answers. > I don't trust Google because it has misled me in the past.
In looking at the full list from three different major on-line retailers and a couple of local places. All I find is variations of ATI and nVidia for AGP. Similar in the PCI-E cards. The only other vendor of video is Intel and they only make it for their own boards. We got new hardware at work about two years ago that had Radeon HD 2400 XT cards. The basic driver for all distros worked well enough for us doing development but we needed to configure it for dual monitors. The basic driver didn't work for dual head. There was several ways it got solved. 1) proprietary driver 2) rebuilding X with the latest and greatest. 3) Using a distro that had a version of X that supported the card. The person that rebuilt X used Gentoo. The others were a mix of Centos and Fedora 10+. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
