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Best DVI video card for Linux workstations?

mooojojojo

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My company is building several linux workstations with DVI capable LCD monitors.
The question is which is a good videocard with DVI (and reasonably fast 2D) and solid driver support for Linux?

Currently there is one test bed with an ATi Radeon 9200 card (I think - I'm not the one building them) and when the LCD is connected through DVI it has all kinds of problems. The same LCD connected to a Windows 2000 workstation with an ATi Radeon 9200 via DVI works perfect. Ideas? Perhaps an NVidia GeForceFX 5200?

Thanks in advance.
 

SUOrangeman

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I've reasonably good luck with my dual-DVI GeForce4 Ti4600 and two Dell 1800FPs. I have yet to try a newer Radeon on Linux, so I don't know how ATi is doing with their updated Linux drivers.

-SUO
 

mooojojojo

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I think that something cheaper than a Ti4600 is needed. They are after all developer machines that are going to be used in 1280x1024 (the native res of the LCDs)... which perhaps makes the 'reasonably fast 2D' comment kinda worthless ;).