From: Mauricio Ortiz Calvao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:42:06PM -0300 > > Hi, > > I am about to buy a workstation with: > > 1) motherboard: Supermicro H8DCE > > 2) CPU's: 2 AMD Opteron 246 cpu's > > This motherboard seems to support a PCI Express slot and thus I would > like, if > possible, to take advantage of this resource, when acquiring a graphics > board. > Specifically, I would like to check whether any one knows that either (i) > an > nVidia 6200 120 PCie, or (ii) an ATI Radeon X300SE PCI-e video card would > be > supported in Debian AMD64 sarge and how these cards compare (which one is > better?). > I couldn't get the Radeon frame buffer on the console to run with XFree/X.org - on switching from X, the console would crash (with the radeon free drivers). I switched to NVidia (6600 pci-e with passive cooling) and haven't regretted that. Console framebuffer works fine now with X.
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