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Video cardsVideo cardsPosted Dec 2, 2007 14:41 UTC (Sun) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release by louie Parent article: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release
Short answer: G450-G550 Matroxes are best for 2D and for multi-head. Though for some weird reason my G450 didn't work in the latest Ubuntu. :-( (I only installed it because my ATI Radeon R100 stopped working due to a bug in the radeon driver!) I ended up getting a used Radeon 9200, which works great. Haven't tried to go dual with it yet though. It seems to be easier to get working cards if you don't care about DVI output, since there seems to be a small window between when manufacturers started supporting DVI and when they stopped providing open specs.
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Video cards Posted Dec 2, 2007 17:03 UTC (Sun) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] Luckily you can get a DVI daughtercard for the G400 series. It's a bit sad that this is still one of the best cards you can get for X.org. Oh well. At least you can play Quake on it.
Video cards Posted Dec 3, 2007 16:50 UTC (Mon) by DG (subscriber, #16978) [Link] I'll second the G550 - they're quite cheap on ebay, and seem very reliable. Unfortunately they have no 3D capability, and are probably 5+ years old - hence I /think/ I'm missing out on 'new' stuff. I've also not found a distro that will magically generate the appropriate xorg.conf file for it, and have to revert to using my own each and every time. David.
Video cards Posted Dec 4, 2007 10:19 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] Sorry, that is simply not true. G550 has 3D capability, I'm using it to play Quake 3 Arena.
Careful of the G550 and DVI Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:48 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] G550 is a solid piece of kit, and a modern version has a nice small IC, and is very power efficient. However, it cannot reliably drive 1600x1200 over DVI. If your monitor has this resolution, or larger, and is a digital device like an LCD, then yuou should look elsewhere if you care about image quality.
Careful of the G550 and DVI Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:49 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] That is.. if you have this resolution or larger you'll be using VGA, and decoding in your monitor back to pixels, resulting in a slightly offset (and degraded) image, most of the time.
Video cards Posted Dec 5, 2007 21:01 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I just bought a new workstation, or more precisely a set of components that can be built into a new workstation once my wife and I have an evening or two in which to do it. I bought a nice shiny new Radeon 9250. Also a super high-performance new Athlon64 3800+ (2.4 GHz, 512 KB L2) 65 nm Lima. Hooray for trailing-edge technology! Cheap, well-understood, and supported by Free/Open Source Software.
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