Monitor / graphics card recommendation

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Mark <mark2015 at openmailbox.org> writes:
> One of my new year's resolutions is to upgrade the monitor on my Fedora
> 23 Desktop.
>
> I've been looking at a 34" curved 3440 x 1440 monitor. But first I want
> to make sure it actually makes sense to get such a large monitor for
> Linux and that there's a graphics card on the market that works well
> with Fedora and that can drive such a large monitor. I would prefer an
> open source driver, but I'm prepared to install a blob if I have to.
> I'm not interested in gaming so that's not an issue, it's the real
> estate I'm after. 

Have a look at the ASUS R7360-OC-2GD5 or the same ATI/Radeon R7-360 card
by any of a half dozen companies.  I have one attached to a cheap 4k
Seiki HDMI monitor (8M pixels) which is 3M pixels more than you need to shift
(5M pixels).  Xorg works with it out of the box.  No mystery binaries
needed.

The downside is this card has a fan, but it runs very slowly under Xorg
and normal use.  Modern framebuffers just don't come fanless any more.
The GPU's at idle all seem to use just a touch too much power.

-wolfgang