Opinion: Favorite video card?

Martin Stone martin.stone at db.com
Tue Apr 20 14:49:29 UTC 2004


Doug Stewart wrote:
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> Martin Stone wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I've had the same troubles everyone else has with NVidia and Matrox
> | Linux "drivers" - mine are exacerbated because I'm SMP and multi-head on
> | most of my machines.  So I was wondering, does anyone have a favorite
> | video card/vendor for Linux?  What I'd really love to have is a card
> | that can run dualhead driving 2 monitors at 1600x1200, DVI rather than
> | analog.
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Martin
> |
> |
> What's been your problem with nVidia cards?

I've got the Quadro 200 and I've been freezing randomly when running SMP... dual 
3.2 GHz Xeon here... I don't have the problem when I init 3, or when I run 
uniprocessor, so I just assume it's the video stuff.  I'd investigate more, but 
it's hard when you're totally frozen in X :-\





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