On 25/06/13 11:21 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 06/25/13 00:12, a...@alphanet.ch wrote:
1. Your budget.
<= ~$150
2. What applications you plan to run.
Some office applications, no games, max HD video. I actually have
problems with fast forward (up to a frozen picture...)
3. How many monitor(s) you have (or will buy) and their interfaces,
resolution(s), color depth(s), and refresh rate(s).
I have 2 ; a newer (hdmi, dvi, vga) and an old one (no hdmi, vga is of
course sure, and perheaps a dvi (need to check, I'm not at home)).
4. Your preference for open-source vs. proprietary drivers.
I prefer open source, it's is easier to install/remove.
I never understood how to remove a driver installed by
# sh something.run
5. How much effort you are willing to put into keeping the video
device driver(s) current.
If I can only "apt-get upgrade", I will not be hurted :)
(And I am quite sure to take an AMD CPU)
It sounds like a current CPU with integrated video is what you want.
While there are video cards available for under $150, it will be a
challenge to find a CPU, motherboard, and memory combination at that price.
My Intel i7-2600S CPU (with Intel HD Graphics 2000) and Intel DQ67SW
motherboard are supported by Debian Wheezy; updates are as easy as
"apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade". Setting video modes (including
dual head) is a matter of editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's my
understanding that Intel has employees developing and releasing
open-source drivers for Intel products.
I have an older machine with motherboard NVIDIA graphics. Building and
installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver wasn't too hard, but I have
experience with Linux kernel and embedded systems programming. The
kicker was keeping the video driver current/ built/ rebuilt as it and
the Linux kernel evolved. Typically, I'd run the machine until it
barfed, wipe it, and start over again. Most recently, I went with the
open-source/ reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver (nouveau). It auto-detects
one monitor just fine, but locks up if /etc/X11/xorg.conf is present.
David
For an integrated system, you can't beat the AMD Vision boards. They use
the A series CPUs (socket FM1 and FM2) and provide excellent graphic
without a video card.
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