On Monday 10 February 2003 12:13, Derek Glidden wrote:
> Do NOT use S3 chips for this. They suck when you try to put multiple
> cards in the same box.
I'll agree completely with this.
> Trident chips crash like mad.
Anyone using Trident cards deserves the pain they get.
> Cirrus Logic is just barely ok.
I'm not very keen on them myself.
> 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.
The "newer" ATI cards have problems.. but I've had no problems with older ATI
chipsets. Older Radeons (pre 7000) and Mach64 et. al seem to work just fine.
> I would seriously consider Matrox as the only real contender, and you
> can get dual-head Matrox cards pretty cheap.
You and your Matrox. Yeah, the Milleniums were a slick card in their day. I've
not tried the newer multi-head cards, but they are the most promising. If
you want a fairly foolproof card, consider these - but be prepared to pay.
> 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
I'll attest to the crashing. They will either "just work" right out of the
box, or won't work at all without some AGP tricks and tweaks. Forget about GL
across anything more than two monitors at a time (with TwinView support). If
you plan on using Xinerama, forget GL altogether.
> - YMMV.
TTTE.
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