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Special Forums Hardware Desktop System with no built in video card on linux Post 302527542 by Corona688 on Friday 3rd of June 2011 02:09:13 PM
Old 06-03-2011
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Originally Posted by jao_madn
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1. If happen i buy a motherboard with high end video card or latest video card that doesn't support linux or linux driver doesn't work. how do i used my desktop with linux since it doesn't have a built in video display card. Should i end up buying cheap motherboard and video card. i just want to buy high end to prepare the future used since i dont know if i will have an income.
For best compatibility, look for something with an nvidia video chipset. Even if the proprietary, hardware-accelerated driver doesn't work, there's several open alternatives that should -- the open nv driver, or the generic vesa driver.

ATI cards also have several options for drivers, but ATI tends to 'kill their young', that is, their closed-source driver tends not to support older cards.
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2. Im accustomed to dual monitor my laptop has a pair of monitor for reading manuals while doing other stuff in the other so i much concern in the display. Any features in the video card or motherboard that i must know to best accomplished my dual scrren or maybe triple monitor
That often depends on what proprietary driver you're using.
 

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ati

ATI(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    ATI(4)

NAME

       ati - ATI video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "ati"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards.  It autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or earlier class
       of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as appropriate.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets by loading those drivers.  See those manpages for specific  cards
       supported.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details, and the specific card driver for driver configuration details.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), r128(4), radeon(4)

AUTHORS

       See the individual driver pages for authors.

X Version 11						      xf86-video-ati 6.14.99							    ATI(4)
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