From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 00:31:26 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 EA15516A400 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from mail07.powweb.com (mail07.powweb.com [66.152.97.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A950243D6D for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 00:31:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.vulpes (24-119-225-24.cpe.cableone.net [24.119.225.24]) by mail07.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B80B14DA60; Tue, 9 May 2006 17:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 19:32:04 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Rick C. Petty" Message-ID: <20060509193204.4f5d800f@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20060509034055.GA57363@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> <17504.1766.481508.210624@satchel.alerce.com> <20060509034055.GA57363@megan.kiwi-computer.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:31:27 -0000 On Mon, 8 May 2006 22:40:55 -0500 "Rick C. Petty" wrote: > 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.. How is the speed when using Xinerama? Last I tried it was back on a old fx5200 using nVidia's drivers and it was dead slow. That was like year or so ago.