Re: multi-screen recommendations for Linux

----- Original Message ----
> From: eric pareja <eric.parejagmail.com>
> 
> Yes. I'm not interested in laptop setups. Though
notebooks generally
> sport an external video port and these can usually be
configured to
> mirror and are easily usable for presentations, this is
not what we
> need.
> 
> We need to display a lot of information simultaneously
on all three
> monitors. Virtual desktops don't help. I suppose a
dual-head setup (as
> detailed in other posts) might be acceptable.
> 
> What I really need info about is what hardware is
available and works,
> rather than whether it is possible in Linux (which I
know already).

I have a number of multi-head/multi-seat PCs running in the
office.  We mostly have Radeon RV-100 cards, we have a
couple with mixed nVidia and Radeon.  So far the most stable
is the PC with two nVidia-based PCI cards plus the built-in
Savage chipset.

The thing is, it is quite hard to find PCI video cards. 
Most of the time I see PCI-Express ones.  But most
motherboard only have one of those long PCI-E slots. 
Motherboards with more of this type of PCI-E slot are
expensive.

--- mike t.


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On Saturday 15 March 2008 10:00:17 am Michael Tinsay wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: eric pareja <eric.parejagmail.com>
> >
> > Yes. I'm not interested in laptop setups. Though
notebooks generally
> > sport an external video port and these can usually
be configured to
> > mirror and are easily usable for presentations,
this is not what we
> > need.
> >
> > We need to display a lot of information
simultaneously on all three
> > monitors. Virtual desktops don't help. I suppose a
dual-head setup (as
> > detailed in other posts) might be acceptable.
> >
> > What I really need info about is what hardware is
available and works,
> > rather than whether it is possible in Linux (which
I know already).
>
> I have a number of multi-head/multi-seat PCs running in
the office.  We
> mostly have Radeon RV-100 cards, we have a couple with
mixed nVidia and
> Radeon.  So far the most stable is the PC with two
nVidia-based PCI cards
> plus the built-in Savage chipset.
>
> The thing is, it is quite hard to find PCI video cards.
 Most of the time I
> see PCI-Express ones.  But most motherboard only have
one of those long
> PCI-E slots.  Motherboards with more of this type of
PCI-E slot are
> expensive.
>
> --- mike t.
>
>
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That will be the hard thing to get a board to support the
two or three cards.

I think you can get AMD (ATI)cards with the dual ports
directly that will give 
you two screens plus the third onboard.

ATI i know works really well on the laptop. it has a program
called Catalyst 
which controls the setup just like MS..

file named: amdcccle 

In the case with laptops mine and other have the ability to
actually run Two 
displays. One Digital one analogue. the Digital is a
duplicate of the laptop 
screen and the analogue can be a duplicate or secondary.

Asus A8J all works really well..


Attachment shows me set up in single mode at the moment. I
have it set on boot 
so i can select the 3 different modes i want.

-- 
Regards, 
        
        Michael Cole
        LPIC-1 



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Matrox QID LP PCIe [1] have Linux support.

[1] http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/pid/products/q
id/qidlppcie.php
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