A few years ago I was involved in doing monthly installfests, and
working a hardware job. I kind of new what to use and what to stay away
from. I haven't done much with hardware for a while, but I think things
have changed and Linux generally just works(tm) now. But I'm about to
buy a new
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Kyle Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few years ago I was involved in doing monthly installfests, and working
> a hardware job. I kind of new what to use and what to stay away from. I
> haven't done much with hardware for a while, but I think things have c
On 7/15/2008 11:57 AM, Kyle Waters wrote:
I'm thinking I want
to go with ati chipset for both mb and graphics, with an amd processor.
I'm not doing anything high end and am only looking at $1000 for the
Is there anything I should avoid?
Kyle
I would start by avoiding ATI. I have always f
Kenneth Burgener wrote:
I would start by avoiding ATI. I have always found that nVidia Linux
support has always been better. Especially in the MythTV realm.
I was hoping ATI was better since they were bought by AMD, but I haven't
read anything that's indicated the promised changes had take
Kyle Waters wrote:
A few years ago I was involved in doing monthly installfests, and
working a hardware job. I kind of new what to use and what to stay
away from. I haven't done much with hardware for a while, but I think
things have changed and Linux generally just works(tm) now. But I'm
> I'm thinking I want
> to go with ati chipset for both mb and graphics, with an amd processor.
> I'm not doing anything high end and am only looking at $1000 for the
> whole setup (including monitor). Is there anything I should avoid?
>
> Kyle
I have an ATI Radeon X800 graphics card using
Brian Beardall wrote:
> I have an ATI Radeon X800 graphics card using the fglrx and AMD has
> greatly improved the driver over the last year. The performance for my
> X800 is the same as it would be in the other OS. AMD has also been
> delivering same day graphics support for all of their new cards
Michael Torrie wrote:
Brian Beardall wrote:
I have an ATI Radeon X800 graphics card using the fglrx and AMD has
greatly improved the driver over the last year. The performance for my
X800 is the same as it would be in the other OS. AMD has also been
delivering same day graphics support for al
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, info wrote:
I have an ATI Radeon X800 graphics card using the fglrx and AMD has
greatly improved the driver over the last year. The performance for my
X800 is the same as it would be in the other OS. AMD has also been
delivering same day graphics support for all of their n
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have yet to get dual monitor mode working with ATI's drivers.
> ...
> Can get mirrored mode, but not xinerama. Anyone successfully got this
> to work?
For a couple of years now I've been running two CRT monitors atta
Chris wrote:
> I don't use Xinerama; instead, I use an ATI driver option called
> "MergedFB" which lets you pretend to have a 3200x1200 desktop
> distributed horizontally across a pair of 1600x1200 monitors. I can
> email (or post) a copy of my xorg.conf file if you like.
Thanks for the offer. T
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