Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 20:05:10 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video card recommendation(s) for multi-head configuration Message-ID: <17504.1766.481508.210624@satchel.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier writes: > > I'd like to hook up more then one monitor to my desktop, work on one, > monitor on the other, sort of thing ... I'd *love* to hook up three when > finished, but not sure how easy/reasonable that is to do ... > > I'm guessing someone here has experience with multi-head configurations, > so the questions are along the lines of max # of monitors, video cards > that does this well, etc ... I'm driving a pair of 18" 1280x1024 lcd's (NEC Multisync LCD 1850x) via their DVI connectors w/ a Matrox MGA-G550 AGP card w/ the funky single high-density connector. Dual-headed DVI functionality requires you to use the binary mga_hal blob, and the port doesn't work with the Xorg 6.9. I had to fart around a bit to make it work, but did eventually put together a recipe, which is posted at http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewforum.php?f=64 I've also hooked up the same monitors to a Matrox P-650 but didn't explore it very much. It might be interesting because it has a higher maximum pixel count. I spent a couple of hours wrestling w/ an nvidia based card on Fedora core 4 last weekend and eventually got Xinerama working with the binary nvidia driver, but never made it work w/ nv driver. g.
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