2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright
Not TODAY, YESTERDAY.
These monitors are sitting unused for almost a week now.
future are irrelevant.
If he chooses ATI cards, he should use only 1st reason to justify his
choice.
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright
Not TODAY, YESTERDAY.
These monitors are sitting unused for almost a week now.
future are irrelevant.
If he chooses ATI cards, he
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:07 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright
Not TODAY, YESTERDAY.
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You pretty much nailed it, just like
2008/8/27 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Great, just great. So while considering all the apathy hang-vidia shows
towards open-source, their crappy BLOBs, and they dropping support from older
cards, and not releasing specs, etc. - you're still supporting them with your
wallet. How do you expect
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
Since there are always swings around about best linux support which
I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia,
AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models?
* Intel would be best:
1. Full OSS drivers on any
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
Since there are always swings around about best linux support which
I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia,
AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card
Hi,
* nVidia have:
1. The best proprietary Linux support ;-)
2. The worst FOSS support.
3. Someone else on this thread already detailed some
of the problems it brings (updates, cards with quick
End-Of-Life, etc.)
Regarding your 3rd reason: Go pick Geforce 6XXX, 7XXX,
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Omer Zak wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
Since there are always swings around about best linux support which
I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia,
AMD
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 00:16 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Omer Zak wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
Since there are always swings around about best linux support which
I didn't follow,
On Tuesday, 26 בAugust 2008, Omer Zak wrote:
Plans of mice and men always change. ATI might fold 8 months from now,
or be taken over by nVidia and have its product lines discontinued, or
switch to solar powered 3D holographic displays.
Omer, you somehow miss my point.
I'm not talking about
Hello,
My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need
to buy graphics cards which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu
(and Windows XP and Vista).
Since there are always swings around about best linux support which
I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should
Hi,
I'll go with NVidia if you don't care about open source drivers. They
have excellent support in dual screen support.
Intel... not very good support. good drivers, but I had my share of a
garbage cursor on the 2nd screen.
ATI/AMD - Pretty good but PRAY that your card is supported in their
In my PC I have two nVidia GeForce FX 5200 video cards. One with AGP
form factor, and the other - with PCI form factor.
This was the cheapest way to add a second display to my PC, and worked
because my PC had unused PCI slots.
Software: Debian Etch, with Xorg version 7.1.0-19.
The driver being
On Monday 25 August 2008, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi,
I'll go with NVidia if you don't care about open source drivers.
I would recommend against Nvidia:
http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/
They are completely apathetic towards open-source and Linux, and I have
encountered (or heard of
Hi,
I had bought ATI Sapphire HD 2400 PRO for a developer workstation.
The card was in mass sales two months ago. The card is working
perfect with Debian lenny - July 2008 and with Knoppix 5.3.1.
Graphics display and video processing seems fine with
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd video driver.
-
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:06 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi,
I'll go with NVidia if you don't care about open source drivers. They
have excellent support in dual screen support.
Intel... not very good support. good drivers, but I had my share of a
garbage cursor on the 2nd screen.
ATI/AMD -
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