From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 01:28:50 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 2D65316A402 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 01:28:50 +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 78BBC43D45 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 01:28:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 64461 invoked by uid 2001); 10 May 2006 01:28:48 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:28:48 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Vulpes Velox Message-ID: <20060510012848.GA64351@megan.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20060508171252.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> <17504.1766.481508.210624@satchel.alerce.com> <20060509034055.GA57363@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <20060509193204.4f5d800f@vixen42.vulpes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509193204.4f5d800f@vixen42.vulpes> 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: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:28:50 -0000 On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:32:04PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > 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. I've had very good luck with and without Xinerama. Which version of the nvidia driver were you using? What resolutions & bit depths? I'm assuming you had plenyt of video memory. The FX5200 is a low-end card, did it run significantly faster in dual-head without Xinerama? -- Rick C. Petty