at issue is that the R620 has a 1U profile . . . On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > I know there are a number of Linux sysadmins on this list and I'm trying > to decide if Dell is pulling my chain or not. I've got a Dell R620 server > that we need to do some 3D graphics on. > > The onboard graphics card is a Matrox chipset that appears to have very > poor 3D performance under Linux. I asked Dell if I can get a graphics card > in the server that performs better for 3D graphics. Their response was "3rd > party video cards in servers don't support 3D and are only for dual monitor > use at standard VGA resolution". > > Can anyone confirm that there's no solution that will provide better 3D > performance in such a machine? I find it hard to believe that the server > somehow disables the 3D support on the card. Although I don't know that > much about video cards and how they talk to the CPU. > > Thanks. > > Jon > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140221/c41401a0/attachment.html>