From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 20:42:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7F216A401 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 20:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF6F43D48 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 20:42:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DD9131D73; Tue, 9 May 2006 06:12:27 +0930 (CST) Received: from eucla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBF184632; Tue, 9 May 2006 06:12:26 +0930 (CST) Received: from eucla.lemis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eucla.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EBED5E3B; Mon, 8 May 2006 13:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by eucla.lemis.com (8.13.6/8.13.4/Submit) id k48KgOKq012102; Mon, 8 May 2006 13:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:42:24 -0700 From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20060508204224.GA12001@eucla.lemis.com> References: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video card recommendation(s) for multi-head configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 20:42:30 -0000 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 8 May 2006 at 17:14:57 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > 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 ... The real issue is what kind of card. > 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 ... Take a look http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html. I don't know if I'd do this again if I were starting out afresh. Nowadays there are PCI Express cards with more than one output, and that's what I did last time (for Monty Widenius). That was an NVidia 6600 card with two outputs. There may be more. Otherwise you will probably have to add normal PCI cards, which are difficult to come by nowadays. You might be better off getting a used top-of-the-range card made before AGP became mainstream. How many? As many as you have cards, slots, monitors and space on your desktop. If the slots are the limitation, you can spread it across multiple machines with x2x (in the Ports Collection). I'm currently running 7 monitors on 4 machines. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEX60vIubykFB6QiMRAjfcAKCKReNMsnK4qmDBh9xQtiawY5x2rACgonC2 wV6WSWDXpMO/nAex+xdgTrM= =EOmR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--