Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-04-06 Thread John Elliott
Thanks for the input. I have purchased an Nvidia GT210 and will install it shortly. All reports indicate it should be less problematic than the ATI Radeon based boards. Regards, John Rick wrote: > Nvidia works for me. I have a GeForce 9400GT driving two 1920x1080 > displays, one of them is a 4

[OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-03-25 Thread John Elliott
Folks, Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers? Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better. Regards, jre ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-03-23 Thread Rick
Nvidia works for me. I have a GeForce 9400GT driving two 1920x1080 displays, one of them is a 47" Sharp Aquos HDTV. The sound doesn't work on the Aquos, but I use the computers sound system, so it isn't a problem. I didn't have any issues at all setting it up, basically it's the same two monitor

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-03-23 Thread dman
I've also had good success with Nvidia in Linux. I don't have a recommendation regarding which Nvidia card but I've not had one that didn't work. I've also used the VDPAU acceleration. It also works fine with bluray playback smoothly. I found this page useful: https://help.ubuntu.com/commun

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-03-23 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, John Elliott wrote: > Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well > supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers? > > Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better. Hmm. Not clear from your message if you are implying that you want a ATI radeon

[OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for a Video Card

2010-03-23 Thread John Elliott
Folks, Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI-Express video card which is well supported by X11 and does not require ATI drivers? Resolution required is 1920x1080 or better. Regards, jre ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.