From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 03:40:57 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 6033516A42F for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 03:40:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (megan.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C71A43D45 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 03:40:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 57440 invoked by uid 2001); 9 May 2006 03:40:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 22:40:55 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20060509034055.GA57363@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> <17504.1766.481508.210624@satchel.alerce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17504.1766.481508.210624@satchel.alerce.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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: Tue, 09 May 2006 03:40:57 -0000 On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:05:10PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > 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 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. I'd recommend any "modern" nVidia card (that is, later than GeForce FX). I have dual-head (and sometimes 3-4 head) working on almost every box I manage now. I've had good luck with both the nv and nvidia drivers in dual-head mode. Everything works well out of the box. At work, some of us have a 1920x1200 and a 1600x1200 running in 32-bit color. I've run up to 4 monitors with two cards pretty successfully with Xinerama. I won't touch a non-nVidia card anymore. That goes for windoze too.. -- Rick C. Petty