Recommendation for FC9 graphics card

[Kevin Kofler]

Luke Sheldrick <luke <at> sheldrick.co.uk> writes:
> Need to get a new graphics card I guess.
> 
> Can anyone recommend one?

AMD ("ATI") Radeons up to X1050 (where actually X850 is the most powerful one, 
the X1050 is a marketing name for a card from the X300/X550/X600 series) are 
well-supported (by the Free radeon driver, no need for the proprietary fglrx 
driver), but be warned that I don't know how well dual-head works with those or 
even if they support it. Most of the 'X' cards are PCI-Express (that's what 
the 'X' stands for), but AFAIK some of them are available in AGP versions too. 
The 9200/9250 series is an AGP card which is really well supported, but once 
again, I don't know much about dual-head.

Also, if you use KDE and need dual-head to work well, don't upgrade to F9 just 
yet, Plasma in KDE 4.0 is known to behave strangely with more than one screen: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440239

        Kevin Kofler