Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:06:03 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Please advise on triple-head _HIGH_ resolution solution for FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <20050201050603.7819.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, To let me say initially, I have the goal of buying three of the new apple 30" cinemadisplays and running them as one large extended desktop in x11 under FreeBSD. The displays are 2560x1600, and I want to utilize them at full resolution. The question: what hardware can perform this _and_ work under FreeBSD ? My guess is I have three choices: - find _one_ PCI-X or AGP card that can drive all three monitors at once ... the matrox p750 can do this, but only at 1280x1024 for three screens. The new matrox APVe can also do this, but only at 1920x1080 or below (not quite clear) ... so these are not valid choices ... are there any single cards that can do 3x (2560x1600) ? - find three normal PCI cards that can each drive 2560x1600 ... not sure if such advanced cards were ever made for plain old PCI, or how well that would work ... at 3x that res, would I be getting close to saturating the PCI bus ? - find a system that has 3 PCI-X slots in it (does that exist ?) and then find 3 PCI-X gfx cards that can each do 2560x1600 ... any thoughts on this line ? And if so, what would be a good FreeBSD supported gfx card to stick three of in a system ? ------ Obviously I need help ... so any comments at all are appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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