Recommend a video card

[Nicholas Leippe]

On Thursday 03 May 2007, Dave Smith wrote:
> Michael Torrie wrote:
> > I haven't had any stability problems with NVidia's drivers in years now.
> > I use their 64-bit drivers at work and the 32-bit ones at home.
> > Occasionally X will lock up (like once a year), but other than that it's
> > fairly good, considering.
>
> I agree but not for dual head. I've been trying to get my NVidia cards
> to do dual head in Linux using NVidia's proprietary driver, and it
> doesn't work very well for Xrender stuff (Qt4 widgets for example look
> like garbage).

I've been running dual head w/nvidia at work for a year now w/o any crashes.
I use the twinview setting w/xinerama.  3d games work great.

I do have a complaint, but it's specific to my card--a 6200 TurboCache 
(meaning it shares system ram for texture space). This particular card 
doesn't handle beryl w/o hitting memory limits and getting the black windows 
bug when it does.  But beryl does work and look really nice when few enough 
windows are open.