Hi Amos I have a NVIDIA 8500 on my Hardy and it works fine in dual-monitor mode. I hate the fact the driver is proprietary but so is AMD's. As Lloyd mentioned, I too had very bad experience with AMD's drivers on Ubuntu. I think AMD graphic cards are better tech-wise but their support in GNU/Linux is not so good.
Regards, Masood On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello, > > My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need > to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu > (and Windows XP and Vista). > > Since there are always swings around about "best linux support" which > I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, > AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models? > > The computers are a mix of older (2-3 years?) to new (2 months old), > so the system bus might be a bit limited too. > > I don't need to run games or anything too fancy - just plain > programming/surfing and remote desktop, though support for Compiz > would be a nice bonus. > > Thanks, > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
