Opinion: Favorite video card?

[Martin Stone]

Nigel Wade wrote:
> Martin Stone wrote:
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>>> Martin Stone wrote:
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>>> |> Martin Stone wrote:
>>> |> | Hi,
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>>> |> | I've had the same troubles everyone else has with NVidia and Matrox
>>> |> | Linux "drivers" - mine are exacerbated because I'm SMP and
>>> |> multi-head on
>>> |> | most of my machines.  So I was wondering, does anyone have a 
>>> favorite
>>> |> | video card/vendor for Linux?  What I'd really love to have is a 
>>> card
>>> |> | that can run dualhead driving 2 monitors at 1600x1200, DVI 
>>> rather than
>>> |> | analog.
>>> |> |
>>> |> | Cheers,
>>> |> | Martin
>>> |> |
>>> |> |
>>> |> What's been your problem with nVidia cards?
>>> |
>>> |
>>> | I've got the Quadro 200 and I've been freezing randomly when running
>>> | SMP... dual 3.2 GHz Xeon here... I don't have the problem when I 
>>> init 3,
>>> | or when I run uniprocessor, so I just assume it's the video stuff.  
>>> I'd
>>> | investigate more, but it's hard when you're totally frozen in X :-\
>>> |
>>> |
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>>>
>>> Hmm, dual Xeons and an SMP kernel... maybe HT stuff is coming into play?
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>> Nope, HT is off, appending "acpi=off apm=off nohlt", you know, the 
>> usual ;-)
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> Have you switched to the latest (2179) SMP kernel? This has removed the 
> low latency patch which causes SMP systems to hang/crash during umount 
> operations.
> 
> Do you use LDAP? I've had some issues with LDAP/NSS/SMP and processes 
> hanging on futex's.

Oo, no, I stopped at 2174 - I will try the new one!  Nope, no LDAP...