Dual Head Video Card Recommendations?
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1? I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1?
I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
I've had very good luck with Matrox cards. They've all been very well supported under linux. http://www.matrox.com/mga/3d_gaming/products.cfm I've had the G550 and currently running the P750. They even supply Linux drivers on there disks. :) JD
I have several workstations in our office with MSI 5200's with 128MB. They
are around $60 and offer a VGA and a DVI port. The card will sometimes come
with the DVI to VGA converter or you can buy one for around $6. These work
very well. Even under SuSe 64bit with dual monitors running at 85Hz.
Brad Dameron
SeaTab Software
www.seatab.com
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From: "Chuck Stuettgen"
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1?
I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
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On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:51 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1?
I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
nVidia, nVidia, nVidia! They don't make the cards themselves, just the chipsets. The MSI card recommendation may have the nvidia chipset. B-)
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:51 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1?
I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
nVidia, nVidia, nVidia!
They don't make the cards themselves, just the chipsets.
The MSI card recommendation may have the nvidia chipset.
B-) I am running a Matrox G450 on one box and a G400 DH plus a Millenium II (Three
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17.50, Brad Bourn wrote: heads) on another never had any problems at all. Might need a bit of fiddling to get it up since Yast sometimes is a bit flaky concerning DualHeads, bur after that.. No problemo! 3x1280x1024 is nice! -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------
I've been doing this for a while. Matrox works very well, each screen is separate, you then use Xinerama to bridge the screens. The G200, G450, G550. etc all work, and can be combined to multiple heads. nVidia has dual-head cards, like the GeForce4 MX 440 that supports dual screen in their hardware. (Twinview they call it). I have two of these cards using twin view for each pair of screens and Xinerama to make a 4-screen amalgam. In short, dual head is well supported, and makes a very productive environment. One this that I've found: the screen resolutions and size should be similar, and as minimal a bezel as possible is better. Also, I'm going with an odd number of screens next time. Finally, I have layouts in 4 in a row, and 4 in a square. The side-by-side is much better.
Rikard, On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:23, Rikard Johnels wrote:
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I am running a Matrox G450 on one box and a G400 DH plus a Millenium II (Three heads) on another never had any problems at all. Might need a bit of fiddling to get it up since Yast sometimes is a bit flaky concerning DualHeads, bur after that.. No problemo!
Don't you need three AGP slots to do that? Do you have such a mainboard?
... /Rikard
Randall Schulz
On Thursday 12 May 2005 03.30, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Rikard,
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:23, Rikard Johnels wrote:
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I am running a Matrox G450 on one box and a G400 DH plus a Millenium II (Three heads) on another never had any problems at all. Might need a bit of fiddling to get it up since Yast sometimes is a bit flaky concerning DualHeads, bur after that.. No problemo!
Don't you need three AGP slots to do that? Do you have such a mainboard?
... /Rikard
Randall Schulz The G450 and G400 DH is dual head. (AGP) And the Millenium II is a PCI card I did try three PCI card together with the AGP once. It worked perfectly, but i had to return the extra monitors :( Not to mention i had no room on my desk for 5 monitors
You can probably keep stacking PCI cards until you run out. (ant verify that tho) I know Matrox G200 MultiHead gives you 4 outputs and thats a PCI card. So you could probably stick at least two of those in a box and have 8 heads... -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday 12 May 2005 14:34, Brad Bourn wrote:
You can only have one AGP slot per MoBo.
Why? One can surely have as many AGP ports (and, correspondingly, slots) as one likes. Having said that, has anyone actually made a chipset with more than one AGP port? Not that I know of ... so one would have to build one's own chipset and motherboard - there's nothing stopping you ;) As you say, PCI express has now taken over at the high end anyway. This thread contains some interesting links: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.2/0634.html -- Bill
William Gallafent wrote:
You can only have one AGP slot per MoBo.
Why? One can surely have as many AGP ports (and, correspondingly, slots) as one likes.
No - the specification only has a single address range for the AGP slot!
Having said that, has anyone actually made a chipset with more than one AGP port? Not that I know of ... so one would have to build one's own chipset and motherboard - there's nothing stopping you ;)
They produce multiple graphics cards on the single AGP slot instead
As you say, PCI express has now taken over at the high end anyway.
Would be nice if we could still get ordinary PCI graphics cards for multiple head systems :( -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services
nVidia makes dual head PCI and so does matrox. On the high end of cards, there are Colorgraphic cards that have up to 8 heads on a singe card. I have 2 clients that have 2 4-head Colorgraphic cards(8 monitors). B-) On Thursday 12 May 2005 08:09 am, Lester Caine wrote:
Would be nice if we could still get ordinary PCI graphics cards for multiple head systems :(
Brad Bourn wrote:
nVidia makes dual head PCI and so does matrox.
On the high end of cards, there are Colorgraphic cards that have up to 8 heads on a singe card.
I have 2 clients that have 2 4-head Colorgraphic cards(8 monitors).
They obviously have lots of money ;) I have 12 way PCI motherboards, but getting simple 20GBP PCI graphics cards is almost impossible. Colorgraphic do some nice cards - at a price :(
On Thursday 12 May 2005 08:09 am, Lester Caine wrote:
Would be nice if we could still get ordinary PCI graphics cards for multiple head systems :(
-- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services
On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:48 am, Lester Caine wrote:
They obviously have lots of money ;) I have 12 way PCI motherboards, but getting simple 20GBP PCI graphics cards is almost impossible. Colorgraphic do some nice cards - at a price :(
They we're pretty reasonable at around 3-4 hundred. If the average video card is $70-90 * 4 would be right in the ballpark. They do stocks and futures so being able to see all the pertenant information at once is a plus. B-)
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 08:50 -0600, Brad Bourn wrote:
nVidia makes dual head PCI and so does matrox.
On the high end of cards, there are Colorgraphic cards that have up to 8 heads on a singe card.
I have 2 clients that have 2 4-head Colorgraphic cards(8 monitors).
B-)
On Thursday 12 May 2005 08:09 am, Lester Caine wrote:
Would be nice if we could still get ordinary PCI graphics cards for multiple head systems :(
Thanks to everyone who replied I appreciate the input. I forgot to mention the system I was putting the card in does not have either a AGP or PCI Express slots. I decided to go with a Colorgraphic Xentera GT 2 - PCI card. It uses the ATI Radeon 9000 chipset. Since the system is a test bed for evaluating Novell Linux Desktop for possible deployment corporate wide I did not want to have deal with potential problems arising from using proprietary drivers that would have to be updated every time there is a kernel update. It took a couple of hours from me to figure out how to get it configured to span both monitors but I was successful. Thanks again.
Brad Bourn wrote:
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:30 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Don't you need three AGP slots to do that? Do you have such a mainboard?
You can only have one AGP slot per MoBo.
PCI Express will solve that problem.
Not exactly. AGP is designed to be dead with PCI Express. True AGP is not supported under the PCI Express specification. However, there are a couple motherboards that violate the spec by providing a slot that accepts AGP 4X & 8X cards: http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=92&LanID=0&DetailID=298&DetailName=Specification http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=93&LanID=0&DetailID=472&DetailName=Specification -- "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." John 1:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Both Matrox and nVidia make PCI version of their cards.
Chuck, On Tuesday 10 May 2005 19:51, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1?
I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.
I just saw this in a ZDNet review: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- eVGA e-GeForce 6200 TC If you're looking for a cheap way to add dual-monitor support, eVGA's e-GeForce 6200 TC will hook you up. But stay away if you need 3D power. -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/eVGA_e_GeForce_6200_TC/4505-5_16-31312126.html "CNET editor's take "It's not good for gaming, but if you need to run two monitors, eVGA's e-GeForce 6200 TC will do the trick." Randall Schulz
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William Gallafent