On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Blackburn wrote:
> Would like to hear people's recommendations for a snappy video card,
> say, with 16Mb Ram or better that is easily configurable with Linux
> (RH6x-7x in particular) that IS NOT an nvidia design.
> Richard
I'd like to put my vote in for Matrox cards. They're well supported under
Linux both by X and with the matroxfb framebuffer in the kernel. They're
not the best 3D performers, but they're not meant to be. And the output
quality is exceptional - important if you spend alot of time staring at
code like me :)
My G200 lasted me a good 2 years, and I recently got a G400 MAX. It's even
better! Pretty good 3D performance. It may not be the darling of the '1337
crowd with 10fps more than the next d00d, but it certainly gets the job
done. And the drivers are fully open source, if that's important to you
(which it may be if you're not looking for an nVidia card).
The G400 has dual outputs. I had this working once using the Matrox
binary-only drivers, but I had to sell that monitor to my younger brother :)
The second output can also drive a TV signal, with composite and S-video
connectors from a special adaptor cable. I've recently started playing
with this, using the kernel framebuffer device.
hope this helps ;)
bye
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