And, I might ask - why are you trying to do the graphics processing on the server and not on the workstation you're using to connect to the server? On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/d791be72/attachment.html>