On Thu, 14 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch <jgro...@mooseriver.com>: > > I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will > > handle WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as > > long as the flesh tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy. > > > > Thanks for the advice. I guess I'm going to make a trip to Fry's > > Friday. > > I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu > and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow > it is.
Depends how unaccelerated it is. VESA is pretty damn slow, but even minimal radeon/radeonhd support is fast enough for desktop use. > I gave up trying to get accelerated 3d + dualhead support on the > card(s) I was using - apparently the hardware just didn't do a single > viewport span across 2 1280x1024 screens :( > (The max viewport width was 2048 pixels..) > > 2d acceleration may be a must for that kind of resolution.. If you have a fast CPU & decent pipe to video memory it isn't necessary, but very nice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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