[COLUG] Video Cards

[Phil Cuellar]

it's a shame that NVIDIA isn't playing nice with Linux as it's been my
experience that they have better and more reliable hardware than ATI.
Just about every hard-core gamer I know swears by NVIDIA, and many
(including me) have had the occasion to swear at ATI Radeon cards....

On 6/23/08, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:03 -0400, Ben Gladwell wrote:
>
> > On 20/06/08 11:52 -0400, Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>  > > I'm looking to replace the onboard video on an older computer and turn
>  > > it into a dual monitor Ubuntu workstation.
>  > >
>
> > > I found one dual monitor card, a Jaton 3D Force 6200 Twin which says AGP
>  > > 4x/8x. It uses a NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Twin video chipset. Does anyone
>  > > know how well Ubunutu supports this chipset?
>  >
>
> > AMD/ATI are making great strides to work better with Linux.  Supposedly,
>  > they will be releasing a full open source driver some time in the
>  > future.  That will be great.
>  >
>  > However, at this time, if you want to use hardware acceleration, dual
>  > monitor support, and stuff like that, you're going to have to use their
>  > proprietary driver fglrx.  Its better in Ubuntu 8.04 than it was in
>  > 7.10, but it still has problems.  And it doesn't work at all with Fedora
>  > 9.
>  >
>  > So if you don't care about openess of hardwire drivers (I don't), nVidia
>  > is much more pleasant at this point.
>  > I think if/when AMD/ATI releases an open driver to replace fglrx, that
>  > will be superior.  But for now, working with fglrx is sort of a pain.
>  >
>  > -Ben
>
>  I am having trouble with ATI / fgrlx on my notebook (ATI Radeon XPress
>  200M) when in dual monitor mode.  I had it working pretty well with
>  Ubuntu Dapper and Gutsy, but it is not working with Hardy. The screen
>  saver seems to cause lockups. It will also lock up if you switch to a
>  text terminal and then try to switch back to the GUI screen.  Things
>  seem to work okay when the external monitor is not connected.
>
>
>  Mark
>
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