[AG-TECH] Simplifying your life

[Bob Olson]

Oh, and while I'm on this topic.

You don't need RAID disks for AG node machines. They add unneeded cost and
complexity to the system

--bob

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Bob Olson wrote:

> I've been poking around a bit tonight and it appears that the G450 is
> causing some problems still in the current XFree4.0.2/RH7.1 beta. As a
> dual-head card is definitely not required on the capture machines, at this
> point I would recommend staying away from them for the Linux side. They
> work great on Windows (modulo no 24-bit color on both heads, but then the
> Appian cards don't support that either. Time tofigure out how to get fast
> JPEG decode in 32-bit mode... ).
> 
> For those scoping out machine purchases, I'd peer at the XFree86 driver
> pages at 
> 
> 	http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES3.html#8
> 
> to ensure the card you are considering is supported.
> 
> --bob
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Bob Huebert wrote:
> 
> > Why not try two video cards - one for each display? It might even be 
> > a less expensive solution.  I've got a TNT2 based card (agp) sitting 
> > alongside an older ATI aiwp (pci). Both work fine with Xfree4.0. This 
> > is my home machine - not our AGN.
> > 
> > -bob
> > 
> > At 11:00 AM -0700 3/26/01, John A. Greenfield wrote:
> > >Has anyone else had problems with the linux install on some Matrox G450
> > >Dual haed cards ? Some cards seem to work fine, others seem to hang the
> > >graphics install mode and always hang X after a text mode install.
> > >Does anyone have fixes for this ?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
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> > >John Greenfield
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