[clug] Video Cards for Linux

[Jepri]

Sam Couter wrote:

>Tomasz Ciolek <tmc at dreamcraft.com.au> wrote:
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>>Try Matrox g200 or g400, any of the Radeon (except 9600's i think).
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>I have a Matrox G450, which is a nice card, but I have to disable all
>the acceleration (even 2D) to make it work right!
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>With acceleration enabled I get a lot of font droppings and missing
>text. Bad bad bad. Waste of money. I'm not the only one either:
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>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225753
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232390
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66697
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>I have a dual-head setup, and Xinerama disables the 3D acceleration (not
>that I use it for anything more than GL screensavers) anyway. All in
>all, I'd have been much better off spending $30 on a cheap and nasty
>card. What I've got was expensive and still nasty.
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Xinerama always disables the acceleration, and that's mentioned in the 
docs.  There are certain difficulties involved in splitting an 
accelerated X window across screens. 

This is not a flaw.  Alas, the font dropping is.