>
> Hi all !
> I'm going to buy a 17" Sony screen soon and in connection with that I also want
> to buy a new graphics card. Only problem is that I'm not exactly sure which one
> to buy, so I'm turning to you for advice.
You might also check out the PS400. It's a 19-ish inch screen with dual
inputs and a push-button on the front to switch between inputs. It's just
a little more than a 17, and a lot less than a 20. Nice features if you
use linux and windoze side-by-side on the same desk. A friend has one of
these and I am rightly jealous. I have an 17 SE-II which is nice also.
I've found the Diamond cards to be REAL good with drivers in Linux. I've
got 3 4MB diamond stealth 3d cards in various systems. This provides
1024x768 in several billion colors (32-bit). More resolution and colors is
not real practical on a 17" monitor. An 8MB card might provide a good
upgrade path from that though. the Megabyte on a video card (on PCs) are
generally used to hold a screenfull of pixels at a certain color depth.
More colors or more resolution increase memory demands.
> I have been looking at Matrox Millennium II, but maby there are better choises ?
> This is what I demand of the graphics card:
>
> 1) I have to be able to use it with Redhat Linux 5.0 without problems with
> drivers etc.
> 2) It should be possible to use all the features the card offers with Linux
> (ofcource, exept for special M$-Windoze standards)
> 3) Todays GUI's are very heavy, so I want to speed up my comp. and therefore
> want a card which work fast. A 220 MHz Dac or above and 8-16 MB of RAM.
>
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