[ale] budget dual-head advice?

[Greg Clifton]

You will ONLY have an AGP slot on a motherboard that is many years old ~>5
and IF you find an AGP card to put in the slot, you will be stuck with one
of the old chips that [likely] are not well supported in Linux (at least for
ATI, with the pre AMD ownership of the company, since which things have
gotten better in the way of open source support for ATI).
There never were any PCI-X graphics cards, you SURELY mean PCI-e (i.e. PCI
Express). You definitely want to go with PCIe, much faster, better
supported, and cheaper (for the performance provided).

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 08/31/2011 11:19 AM, Björn Gustafsson wrote:
> > I'd prefer PCI-X but have the option of AGP if it makes sense
> > budget-wise.  Sounds like nVidia isn't so bad after all, so I will
> > probably end up going that way.
>
> Another thread I missed!  Better late than never!  :)
>
> I've been very happy with ATI and the open source radeon driver for it
> lately.  Just note that if you get a card built on the CAICOS chipset
> that kernel mode setting is REQUIRED for X to work, and for some
> distributions you'll have to update some components.  Gentoo works GREAT
> with the CAICOS chipset, as would Ubuntu 11.04 if they had a new enough
> Mesa...
>
>        --- Mike
>
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