Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Stephen Ryan]

I looked up the drivers for this last night, because Arc seems so
positive that these cards are fully supported, and because the card in
my laptop, a FireGL V5250, is basically a Radeon X1600 with some tweaks,
so I'd be really happy to get full functionality out of it.  

What I found is a brand-new driver, all of three weeks old, still under
heavy development, that you can install if you're adventurous (6 git
repositories, *lots* of compiling, and minimal documentation).  Arc,
where are you getting your drivers from?


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:54 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> Thanks Arc.  Unfortunately I only have 1 PCIe 16x v1.? slot.  How are
> the cards below for 2D?  They certainly seem cheap enough… $49 is not
> what I’d call a lot of money.  
> 
>  
> 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Arc Riley [mailto:arcriley at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:26 AM
> To: Labitt, Bruce
> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging
> 
> 
>  
> 
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> 
>         So Arc, what video card (ATI or other) would you recommend for
>         3D 64 bit linux?  I'm attempting to use vtk, are there better
>         tools available for plotting/rendering/visualization?  I'm
>         trying to visualize a 1K x 1K 3D plot.
>         
>         
> 
> I'm guessing around 1M quads with realtime rendering, so you'd need
> around 50M polygons/second for 30fps (considering the software likely
> isn't completely optimized)
> 
> No problem.  Even the low end PCI 16x Radeons are going to handle 400M
> polygons/second, more than sufficient.  Even the "puny" Radeon 9250 in
> this system can clock over 150M/second.  This one is considered
> mid-range and is fully supported:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.partspc.com/ProductDetails.asp?CatID=588&ProdID=9873
> 
> 2 DVI ports, PCIe 16x, and more than enough rendering speed.
> 
> I'm slightly concerned over how much trouble a dual-screen card will
> give you in X configuration vs two separate cards, and since it's less
> common you may run into bugs.  If you have two PCIe 16x slots it'd be
> better to go with two of these instead which together add up to the
> same cost and boast almost double the speed:
> 
> http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product_info.php?products_id=8730
> 
> Both cards are supported in current stock Linux+Xorg without any
> "special drivers" needed.  YMMV depending on how up to date your
> distro's kernel and Xserver packages are, but that's the case with any
> card.
> 
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