[olug] Video Card Question

[Bill Eberly]

I'd also suggest a Nvidia card. Driver support from ATI is really bad (doing
a ctrl+alt+backspace, or even logging out will sometimes bork your display
until you reboot), and the open source driver can be iffy with accelerated
stuff and can't display a high enough resolution for running dual monitors
at a decent resolution.


On 1/25/07, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
>
> I would suggest getting an nvidia card. Anything you can get new will
> have dual outputs so you can hook up two monitors.
>
> I would not suggest an ATI card. I just got one for a new abit board I
> got and I really wished I would have done more research. It appears that
> you cannot use DRI with xinerama using the proprietary driver and you
> can't get 3d rendering with the opensource driver (not sure if you can
> use DRI and xinerama on the opensource driver either haven't tried yet).
> Also using the fglrx (proprietary) driver the cursor is hosed on the
> second monitor.
>
> I don't seem to run into these issues with nvidia cards. It uses a
> pseudo dri and xinerama support is flawless.
>
> Sam Tetherow
>
> John Moran wrote:
> > I want to use two identical displays on my machine.  I am running
> > Ubuntu Edgy.  I am looking for advice about choosing a graphics card.
> >
> > I really didn't want to ask, because I feel like I should have been
> > able to google a good answer for this, but I've turned up nothing.
> > So, I would really be grateful for some advice about running two
> > monitors and choosing a good card to do it with.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > John
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