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On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 15:02, Brad N Bendily wrote: > On 26 Jun 2003, Mat Branyon wrote: >=20 > > I am in the market for a new video card.. I need a dual head (both vga > > connections) card, with hardware 3d support. =20 >=20 > This brings a thought to my mind that I've been meaning to ask. The other > day I was discussing with a friend, the option of upgrading his video=20 > card. > The question is, what's better for dual head display? Two video cards? > or One card with two outputs? >=20 > I was thinking probably two video cards would be better. That was one > video card isn't doing all the work. I would go dual head card. But then, I am using two different video cards. >=20 >=20 > >I have two nvidia cards > > now, and dont really like the hardware 3d support (takes roughly 5 > > minutes to start x) >=20 > 5 Minutes to start? What underlying hardware is in the machine? > RAM? CPU? May not be just your video card with the slowness. > =20 I have a p3 700 mhz, wiht 768 megs of ram, an abit motherboard.=20 my video cards are: Hercules Prophet 2 MX -- Geforce2 MX chipset(PCI) Riva TNT2 (AGP) -- bought used, not sure what brand whatnot. =20 When starting in nonaccel mode, it starts up great, but when use the nvidia kernel, it takes forever, whether i initialize the second card or not. I might have something configured wrong, but there doesnt seem to be documentation on it. >=20 > > I was wondering what you guys would suggest. Should I go ati or > > nvidia? What is being used out there, and is it satisfactory? etc... > personally i dig the nvidia. But both companies produce solid=20 > performing cards. You might want the one with the best linux support, > if there is such a creature. >=20 Im trying to figure out which that is. ATI seems to contribute to OpenSource code, where nvidia is keeping it closed. >=20 >=20 > >=20 > > thanks >=20 > werd >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --=-IJUO6c2Nsfu0Lqxj5ZqR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA++1SXadbUG229XJoRAnRsAKDZachRrV23GxFKFbH1AoUx1yoJJACeKXU2 61RgvAqDGQnZfIF98QzUhkQ= =J7uS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IJUO6c2Nsfu0Lqxj5ZqR--
