Greetings List Lurkers,
Getting the invitation out Monday before noon is a blessed event.
We need to do firewall duty for the Meth Lab, the Methodists insist :^) In
addition, Tim Feerer will be stopping by with gadgets and stuff for our
consumption as he is moving to the coast. This could be
Hey Folks,
sorry I missed libations at the Farmhouse.
What's the best graphics card for simple solid 2d graphics w/ two
monitors. I'll be browsing the web and editing, not playing 3d shooter
games. Looking for open source drivers and compatibility w/ RandR/etc.
rather than proprietary
Check out this link, Joe
http://www.free3d.org/
Should offer a few ideas/insights into what you're looking to do.
-Pat
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:27 PM, joe golden j...@triangul.us wrote:
Hey Folks,
sorry I missed libations at the Farmhouse.
What's the best graphics card for simple solid
Follow up: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark
A good hit and run explanation of GLXGears (if you're not already familiar
with it). This test I think will give you a good idea of what you're
looking to see with your 2D acceleration. I think a score in the 900 range
will
joe golden j...@triangul.us writes:
What's the best graphics card for simple solid 2d graphics w/ two
monitors. I'll be browsing the web and editing, not playing 3d shooter
games. Looking for open source drivers and compatibility w/ RandR/etc. rather
than proprietary drivers.
ATI Radeon seems
Not sure what one might be best, but I can say I've had great luck
running dual monitors with an NVIDIA GForce 7950 GT on my system under
Fedora 14 with the NVIDIA native drivers.
Be careful about power requirements though. The power supply
requirements for this board are a lot more than the
I've had significant trouble with ATI drivers. NVIDIA's drivers are
proprietary, but they've always worked well for me. I'm switching back
to NVIDIA at this very moment.
Frank
On 06/27/2011 01:58 PM, Tony Harris wrote:
Oh, and yes, I realize the NVIDIA native drivers aren't open source.
