[CLUE-Talk] Video Card question

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

Hi Chris,

Thanks! Looks like I'm off to buy a Radeon. Thanks!

Zonker

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:26, Chris Terry wrote:
> The ATI Radeon 9700 Pro is nice.  It's dual-headed and works acceptably 
> with linux.  Setting up the second monitor is a snap, and can even be 
> configured for TV output.  It's got VGA, S-Video (and composite adaptor 
> bundled), and DVI outputs (but only two work at a time), and AGP 8x support.
> 	On the negative side, I don't have GL support working fully.  I think 
> my AGP or DRI settings are off.  Either way, simple scenes like game 
> menus or GLTron run amazingly fast.  As soon as I fix the problem, it 
> should be running more complex things, like UT2K3, about 60-90 fps.
> 
> 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> > I'm thinking about buying a new video card for my desktop. Is anyone
> > using a newer dual-head card from ATI or nVidia that they'd recommend
> > that works well with Linux? Has to support the newer AGP bus and work
> > well with Xinerama. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Zonker
> 
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