[TriLUG] Recommendation for a video card?

[Reginald Reed]

I've not used one of these myself, but the HD3450 appears to be supported:

http://www.amazon.com/Radeon-AGP8X-512MB-2PORT-Dvi-i/dp/B002NPCD8M

Dual DVI is nice.  Again, no specific experience with this particular
card, just a pointer.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ed Blackman <ed at edgewood.to> wrote:
> A few months ago I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 (LTS), entering the
> world of kernel modesetting for video cards.
>
> Unfortunately, my ancient video cards don't support kernel modesetting.  I
> had to add "nomodeset" to the kernel command line in Grub to get the system
> to boot, and the Xorg logs say "[KMS] drm report modesetting isn't
> supported."
>
> I've also noticed that the graphics seem to be much slower, and now get
> occasional corruption.  I mostly log in to this machine via SSH for a
> terminal (which is why I haven't done anything about this until now), but
> want to replace the cards with something that will work better.
>
> I currently have Radeon 9200 PRO (eg RV280, on AGP) and Radeon 7200 (eg
> R100, on PCI) connected to dual displays.  The secondary display hasn't
> worked since I upgraded.  I'm planning on replacing the whole system in a
> year or so, and don't want to spend too much.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a new card?
>
> Must have:
> - works well out of the box or with minimal setup (eg, "apt-get install
> driver-package")
> - less than $100 (or $150 for dual displays)
> - easy to order online (ie, no "model A of the card isn't supported, but
> it's hard to tell what model you're getting") or available from a
> Apex-area source
>
> Nice to have:
> - open source driver
> - dual displays
>
> Don't need:
> - gaming class 3D performance
>
> Alternately, if there's something I can do to get faster, uncorrupt displays
> from my current cards, I'm willing to try that.
>
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> Ed Blackman
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