On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:37, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
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> On Sunday 09 February 2003 21:06, patrick grantham wrote:
> > Any one using dual displays and Linux? What adapters are you using?
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> Yes. Most PCI adapters that have good XFree86 4.x support are fairly safe to
> work simultaneously anymore. I run a multi-head NVidia box (primary AGP and
> auxilliary PCI adapters) at home without incident. The NKS NOC runs 3 PCs,
> each with a mix of ATI adapters to run ten (10) 17" monitors in a video
> display wall - that was fun to build :)
>
> The trick is to find a well supported PCI card and purchase a few.
> Alternatively, consider a two-head NVidia card (no need for Xinerama, and you
> can still run two-screen OpenGL). Matrox cards work well, as do older ATI
> cards.
Do NOT use S3 chips for this. They suck when you try to put multiple
cards in the same box.
Trident chips crash like mad.
Cirrus Logic is just barely ok.
ATI work but the drivers have been so inconsistent with the many
different chipsets, you may be lucky just to find a combination that
works at all.
I would seriously consider Matrox as the only real contender, and you
can get dual-head Matrox cards pretty cheap.
nVidia proclaim to work, and Ian's done it, but when you have problems,
you're stuck with closed drivers, and in my experience the nVidia
chips/drivers either work just fine or crash constantly and inexplicably
- YMMV.
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