Since 2 heads are better than one, I'm thinking very seriously
about getting a new video card for my computer that will
allow me to run 2 monitors at once.
I know (or I think I know :-) that I could get an AGP card
and a PCI card and run them that way, but can I then grab
a window (say, an emacs window) from one and move it to
the other? (Shoot, as far as that goes, can I do that
with a single card that does two heads?)
So, assuming that I 'need' to get a new card, and assuming that:
1 - I want to pay as little as possible (duh ;-)
2 - it MUST work with linux (double duh ;-)
3 - I want at least 1600x(whatever it is) resolution on both monitors
(i have a 20" and 2 17" monitors available for this), but
I'll probably need for the second monitor to run a different
resolution.
4 - I want a minimum of 64k colors at those resolutions (of course,
more is sometimes better :-)
5 - I want 3d, but it does not have to work under linux just yet.
6 - what with the things I've seen here about Nvidia, I think I'd
rather pass on their stuff, unless the benefits EXTREMELY
GREATLY outweigh the problems I'll have.
7 - once a year or so I'll need to do something in some other OS maybe,
so I'll still need to boot to the dark side at times.
8 - I'm currently running LM 7.2 (gotta keep this at least a LITTLE
relevant to expert list, eh? ;-). I may install 8.x when
I switch to my new motherboard here 'real soon now'. Comments
on the wisdom of this (as it relates to the video card issue
only!) would be appreciated also.
I then have 4 questions:
A - What other requirements (or whatevers) have I forgotten?
B - What card would you suggest?
C - Hey, it strikes me - I've got 3 monitors, why not put one
dual-head AGP card in and one PCI card in - is this
as insane as it sounds? ;-)
D - Has anyone done this and gotten it to work?
Please send responses direct to me, and if there is any
interest I'll "summarize" (in the grand old tradition of the early
usenet news days - i.e. I'll mostly just quote verbatim what folks
send me)
Thanks!
rc
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