On Thursday 13 December 2007, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Leonid Podolny wrote: > > Hi, > > A week ago I complained here about a poor quality of ES1000 graphical > > chipset on our new compilation servers (also used as workstations). > > So basically I need you people to recommend me a card to buy. > > The requirements are: > > 1) PCI/PCI-E (the board has no AGP slots) > > 2) Able to run in 1280x1024 mode. > > 3) Supported by vanilla kernel and vanilla Xorg. (There are at least 5-6 > > different distros here). > > 4) Relatively cheap. > > > > <rant>It's simply ridiculous. Any onboard adapter would be OK, but if > > you buy a board without one, you're out of luck. What do I ask for? > > 1280x1024! Any intel chipset would do. Why is it has to be so difficult? > > I don't need performance, I don't need gl, I don't even know what > > "shader" is. I need it to run 1280x1024, period.</rant> > > Ahem, stupid question. Any card is supposed to work with "vesa" driver, > right? So it kind of solves my problems, right?
I've used the vesa driver with ATI cards (X700, X1250). Check before using it with other cards (new ATI, nVidia) but generally it should be OK. As for dedicated drivers, anything you find that's old enough to be PCI will probably work. A card that old though might actually not have enough onboard memory to support 1280x1024 in full color :-) However, a quick check of zap.co.il reveals only one real PCI card, and it's priced above some new cards. I don't know where you can find old, cheap (but new) cards like that anymore. For PCI-E there are the ATI cards, which have a stable, free x11 driver (radeon) for anything under X1000 (i.e. X800 and below is OK). X1000 and above are supported by the new/experimental radeonhd driver, but you don't need a fast card anyway. zap.co.il shows the cheapest X300 cards at just under 200 ILS. The cheapest PCI-E nVidia cards are a little cheaper, but if you have the choice I advise you to stay away from them unless you're very sure the vesa driver will work. Personally I don't trust nvidia hardware... HTH, -- Dan Armak ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
