[TriLUG] PCI graphics card recommendation

[Matt Bidwell]

Charles Fischer wrote:
> I have a ATI FireMV 2200 PCI 64M display card.  I have not tried this 
> card in a Linux box, but ATI has Linux drivers for the card.  If you 
> would like to try the card let me know.
> 
> Driver site:
> http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-firemv.html
> 
> Info site:
> http://ati.amd.com/products/firemvseries/index.html
> 
> Good Luck
> Charles Fischer
> 
> 
> At 01:08 PM 8/1/2007, you wrote:
>> I'm putting together a linux (KUBUNTU) workstation for doing x-ray
>> crystallography for some people here at work. The computer is nothing
>> fancy, 800 MHz PIII but it only has the i810 graphics on the
>> motherboard. I'm seeing video lockups, that only a reboot fixes.
>> Googling tells me that that are problems with the i810 drivers that can
>> result in this sort of behavior. Can someone recommend a PCI (not AGP,
>> no AGP slot) graphics card for this beast?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> glenn
>>
>> --
>> Glenn Hennessee

A word on Linux video drivers.  ATI and NVIDEA both have Linux drivers.
The NVIDEA drivers are much better, and I would recommend them over
ATI.

Matt