Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:01:45 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which video card for FreeBSD/amd64 Message-ID: <426C0939.5060901@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <200504241828.j3OISslg005103@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200504241828.j3OISslg005103@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'll, probably, give up on NVidia soon. The free "nv" driver does not
> support two monitors on the same card, and the proprietory "nvidia"
> driver does not support amd64. My attempts to get the Linux/amd64 driver
> to work have so far yielded nothing but solid hangs of the system.
>
> Adding an older PCI (VGA) card to drive the second monitor was
> disappointing -- the picture is of noticably poorer quality than over
> DVI.
>
> Is there a decent AGP or PCI-X dual-DVI card out there, that offers
> decent 1600x1200 picture on FreeBSD/amd64? 3D is not a requirement...
I'm a happy camper with an ATI card with VGA and DVI output:
none3@pci2:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x200217ee chip=0x41501002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
device = 'Radeon 9600 Series (V350)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
none4@pci2:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x200317ee chip=0x41701002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.'
device = 'Radeon 9600 Series - Secondary'
class = display
it gives met 2*1280*1024. But I'm shure you can get it to do 1600x1200 as
well. I'm just running 1280*1024 'cause the 17" LCD are native at that resolution.
Xorg has some nice tricks to play multiple screens in a simple way.
--WjW
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