Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
wrote:

> I'm upgrading the graphics card on my 64 bit desktop system (Scientific
> Linux 5.1 x86_64).  I'd like to use VTK to visualize some of my results.
> I only have the built in Intel stuff on my mobo (Optiplex 745, 8GB RAM).
> Can anyone suggest a decent graphics card for this?  Just some Nvidia
> variant?  I think the graphics slot is PCI-Express-16.  It looks like a
> GeForce 8800GTS SSC would be ok.  I need two DVI ports.  Comments?
>
>
I have a Dell Optiplex 745 as my desktop.  Mine has the ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
in it.
I was running Fedora 7 with the fglx driver from ATI.  An upgrade to Fedora
9 means kernel 2.6.25 and the fglx driver no longer works :-(.

The X.org driver is not accelerated (which I don't care about but you
might).
I do have dual display still but X.org thinks they must be one display
instead of a :0.0 and :0.1 :-(

I'd recomment another brand, preferably one with an opensource driver so you
don't have my issues.
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