ati video cards - linux

[Matthew Carpenter]

Sorry for the delay.  I'm somewhat in and out of the list these days.  Thank 
you for the response.

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 12/12/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 December 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > I have used nvidia exclusively (at least when I had a choice) since the
> > > Caldera days. The 3d drivers, although proprietary, are there.
> >
> > I agree...
> > Though it'd be nice to get NVidia drivers to accept that I may possibly
> > plug in a monitor to that extra VGA port so please abide by the Xinerama
> > config...
>
> They've done that for years.  What exactly are you referring to here?

I believe you're speaking truth... but it's not panned out in my configs.  Not 
sure how to get there from here.  Been that way since the last time we 
talked.  I don't know if I just didn't do something right or that my system 
doesn't do something right (you've quipped about HP before)...

> > Or to have everyone place nice so I don't hear things like "oh that's
> > just X vendor who's implemented things wrong".  But still, it's better
> > than most alternatives.  I've found I sometimes have decent luck with
> > Intel's video chipset (there have been times when it's not been
> > pleasant).  Still I keep coming back to NVidia.  Prolly to keep llama in
> > work and testy. ;)
>
> If you want to do that, then buy some Tesla parts.  I don't deal with
> graphics any more:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html

Wow.  slick.  I hope you like the change!


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Matthew Carpenter
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