Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Drew Van Zandt writes: code-editing screen, here I come! (late response due to no power) Hurray! Another person who understands that all of these wide-screen monitors aren't entirely optimal for programmingunless you rotate them, of course Regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Drew Van Zandt
My first thought on seeing them was Oh good, rotate them and they're perfect. Now the question is this: Do I want a 1680x1050 rotated to 1050x1680, or a 1600x1200 rotated to 1200x1600? That's close enough on height that the increased total real estate of the 1600x1200 is still tempting...

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com writes: My first thought on seeing them was Oh good, rotate them and they're perfect. Now the question is this: Do I want a 1680x1050 rotated to 1050x1680, or a 1600x1200 rotated to 1200x1600? That's close enough on height that the increased total

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: My first thought on seeing them was Oh good, rotate them and they're perfect. Now the question is this: Do I want a 1680x1050 rotated to 1050x1680, or a 1600x1200 rotated to 1200x1600? That's close enough on

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Drew Van Zandt
21, no, but go up to 30: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824185012 2560x1600 sounds delicious. For the price, though, it should. --DTVZ On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Drew Van Zandt

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-04 Thread Scott Mellott
Better make sure your graphics board supports dual link DVI at that resolution. All DVI outputs of grphx boards supports single link (1920x1200 max) but, not all grphx boards support DL DVI (max rez 3840x2400). Drew Van Zandt wrote: 21, no, but go up to 30:

Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Hi all, I'm looking for a 2D video card with dual DVI output that is supported by the non-proprietary drivers in Ubuntu 9.10. 3D support relatively unimportant. Background: Currently I have Nvidia, but their closed-source driver does not support screen rotation (and has a few other minor nits

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Arc Riley
Just pick up a Radeon 9200/9250/9600/9700/9800 They've been supported by free software drivers for a long time, there's mature 2d and 3d support. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a 2D video card with dual DVI output that

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I find only the 9250 on NewEgg, and it doesn't have dual DVI. This appears to meet what I want, but due to previous experiences I would prefer a human recommendation over Google says it should work. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102880 --DTVZ On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Drew, With selective Googling I found this posting about the Radeon HD 3650 in Ubuntu Linux: http://blog.vinceliu.com/2009/02/setting-dual-head-displays-with-radeon.html And the link to the ATI site in the article seems to show that they are still supporting the board. md

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for; I did not think to include rotated in my googling, which was silly of me. 1050x1680 (order matters) code-editing screen, here I come! --DTVZ On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Drew, With selective Googling I

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for; I did not think to include rotated in my googling, which was silly of me. 1050x1680 (order matters) code-editing screen, here I come! Well, in this case selective googling was a case of less(1) giving more(1).I just googled for HD 3650 linux,