Opinion: Favorite video card?

[Nigel Wade]

Martin Stone wrote:
> Doug Stewart wrote:
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>> |> Martin Stone wrote:
>> |> | Hi,
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>> |> | 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?
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>> | 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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>> Hmm, dual Xeons and an SMP kernel... maybe HT stuff is coming into play?
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> Nope, HT is off, appending "acpi=off apm=off nohlt", you know, the usual 
> ;-)
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Have you switched to the latest (2179) SMP kernel? This has removed the low 
latency patch which causes SMP systems to hang/crash during umount operations.

Do you use LDAP? I've had some issues with LDAP/NSS/SMP and processes 
hanging on futex's.


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