On 27 Mar 2003, alex wrote: > Either way, anyone have any advice for what kind of card to use in a > Linux server? Will the choice of graphics card have any noticeable > effect or is it OK to nick one from an old desktop?
Ideally, choose one that uses the best bus available (if the machine has agp and pci slots, stick an agp one in, if it's got pci and isa, stick a pci one in, unless you'd run out of slots for useful stuff). Or if you're going for integrated graphics, either make sure it has its own video ram, or check the bios and reduce the amount assigned from system memory for it (ISTR something weird and install-ish at work objected to not having enough base memory, because the graphics chip was hogging some of it) Other than that, use the best card you have spare, or the cheapest card you can buy. No point in letting a card accumulate dust, but no point paying for features you don't use. I suspect the whole issue is a lot less of a deal in a PCI/AGP world (especially with faster and wider busses), it used to be more of an issue with ISA, but even then it was marginal rather than discernable. the hatter
