On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Sandy Harris wrote: > I'm about to do an upgrade on my desktop machine and need to pick a > video card. > > What would people recommend for a dual screen (one CRT, one flat TFT now, > perhaps two TFTs later) under Linux?
(A card that does analog+digital and digital+digital might be hard to find, in my limited experience the picture quality is better with a digital connection). >From what I've heard on the lists the Matrox, ATI dual head cards and fine; I don't heard anything either way about Nvidia cards with the XFree86 drivers. However I haven't watched closely whether people are using exclusively open source drivers (there are 3 ways of driving Matrox cards using the XFree86 server and a mixture of open and closed drivers). > For my eyes, on screens I can afford, resolutions beyond 1400*1050 or so are > not useful. I used to have a 1280x1024 CRT and a 1024x768 TFT screen, but since I replaced the larger screen with a 1600x1024 flat screen I found that I've hardly use the smaller screen. > Applications are mostly web, text editing, testing, some DVDs ... Some gaming, > likely Win4lin. No video editing or 3D simulation. > > I'd prefer an Open Source driver, but would be prepared to pay for one > of the commercial accelerated X packages if that gets features I cannot > otherwise have. I regard using a binary driver from a card vendor as a > last resort. Why is a binary driver from a card vendor worse than a commercial X server ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
