Frank McCormick wrote:
Thanks Brian, but I think I am gonna get myself an Nvidia-based card :)
The NVIDIA card might not be any better. I have issues, with the
proprietary drivers, with slow scrolling using either a Quadro NVS 285
or a GTX 7800 on a 1600x1200 DVI panel. The open source driver is worse.
With Firefox 2 or 3, scrolling on sites like Slashdot
(e.g.,:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/26/1729252 and this
site seems very sluggish as well:
http://shame.tuxfamily.org/repo/?cat=1) can be very slow and peg my CPU
to %100.
Supposedly, it's a known problem. Check out this thread at the official
Nvidia Linux forums:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114858
Borrowing a small laptop at work with Windows XP and an older Intel
integrated video card show no scrolling problems whatsoever. That 1000+
Slashdot thread scrolls by super fast in FF 2 or 3.
If you still want to try the Nvidia card you can pick up a PCI-e or AGP
Quadro NVS (fanless and 15 watts max power consumption) on eBay for
about ten to twenty dollars. Make sure you get the right cable for it;
you need either the Y cable that has dual DVI or VGA.
Here's one card that is selling with either:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NVIDIA-Quadro-NVS-285-Dual-Display-PCI-E-x16-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ160260145616QQihZ006QQcategoryZ3762QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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