Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ron Eggler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 
> 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card.
> Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to 
> display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. 
> And it should be reasonable priced. :)

I just picked up an nVidia 8600GT card and can compare it pretty directly with
the ATI x850 I have in my other machine:

1] I think the ATI worked better "out of the box". It has worked so well, I haven't
needed to install the ATI proprietary drivers. My dual monitor setup has worked well.

2] The nVidia required the proprietary drivers in order to be at all functional. The
standard ones were incredibly slow and didn't do my dual monitors. Installation, while
not painless, wasn't too bad. I installed the packages as indicated here and then
did an 'init 3' and a 'sax -r' and all was good.

http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA

As the fancy new 3D desktops don't really work with dual monitors (yet?), and I don't do
Linux gaming, I think in the future I will go with ATI. I can't really comment on the
3d Linux performance of either card.

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