Hal Pomeranz wrote:
I'm in the market for a graphics card (PCI Express) for running a
fairly generic Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) desktop. I'm not planning on
gaming or other rendering-intensive tasks-- just normal desktop use,
some streaming video, etc. At a minimum, it needs to drive a 24
Bob, is your 24 monitor 4:3 or 16:10 aspect ratio?
Looks like only the very last display resolution you quoted was wide-screen.
I use a pair of measly 20ers but 1680x1050 is their widescreen hardware
res.
One is actually upright, 1050x1680, and displays long documents nicely.
~ben
On Sat, Feb
What about 1680x1050 is low-end??
Well, the Intel 965 chipset in my Thinkpad can drive the monitor at
1680x1050 and higher, so I assumed that this was old hat for PCIe cards.
I'm guessing that you're specifying that you don't need to run 3D games?
(ie, that 2D will suffice) or is that 2D
24 has a native resolution of 1920x1200. 20 and 22 are
1680x1050. Pretty much any *new* ATI or Nvidi card will do the
trick however my 24 forced me into an upgrade because I do in
fact play a few games and trying to play at native resolution
brought my existing card to its digital knees.
That be
24 has a native resolution of 1920x1200. 20 and 22 are 1680x1050.
Yeah, but I'm an old fart and 1920x1200 is too tiny for my weakening
eyes... :-)
--Hal
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You can all jump on me for this but, as far as I can tell there
are *no* Linux-friendly graphics companies today. None release
their API. Instead they provide a binary driver. That's not
in the spirit of things.
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Allen Brown
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I'm in the market for a
Hal,
I'm not sure what low end means for you, but I've been running Nvidia cards for
about three years now and have had high compatibility with Linux. Nvidia
actually provides a proprietary driver (for free) that you can download, build
and install as a module. If you aren't going for the 3D
Gabe, what motherboard do you have? I run an 8800GT flawlessly.
What distro? If you're using Ubuntu I'd recommend Envy to
install the Nvidia driver. I've never had an issue on Slackware,
Gentoo, or Arch (my current desktop distro) running any decent
cards.
That be all,
Mr O.
--- Gabriel Merritt
Both Nvidia and ATI release binary drivers and the NVIDIA drivers seem to be
released faster with better quality. But recently ATI/AMD promised open
source drivers
http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/
so that might become a better
What about 1680x1050 is low-end??
I'm guessing that you're specifying that you don't need to run 3D games?
(ie, that 2D will suffice) or is that 2D minimum avoidable?
Yeah, AFAICT any basic intel/ati/nvideo card (or clone) should suffice, just
check specs on desired resolution :)
If you want 3D,
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