[wellylug] video card choice

[Nic Cave-Lynch]

I've got a machine with (according to lspci)

* ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
* ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)

doing three heads usually, and 4 occasionally. It works fine under Fedora Core 
6. This is a Pentium D 64. I did have problems with getting both cards working 
when it was an AMD 64 processor. Each card on its own worked fine, but both 
together: no chance. There are things that suggest it may have been a 
motherboard problem, though, so you might be OK for dual cards, and the single 
card/dual head worked fine all the time

Nic

Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Any suggestions on linux-friendly video cards?
> 
> I want free drivers, PCIe, for a new AMD 64-bit machine, and ability to
> do dual-head. Does anything exist?
> 
> My understanding, as one who pays little attention to hardware, is that:
> 
> ATI Radeon 92xx and below work fine, but aren't available for PCIe
> Newer ATI cards don't work very well under linux if at all
> nVidia cards work ok, but need binary drivers
> Intel chipsets work ok, but may need hackery for odd resolutions, and
> aren't available as separate cards, so are hard to use with AMD systems
> 
> How do other brands compare? SiS? Matrox? Others?
> 
> Have I missed anything obvious?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
>