-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tilly, Lawrence wrote:
> I have never worked with a dual-monitor setup, but several people I'm > learning this from use such a config. Especially for compositing multiple > layers (blue screen / green screen) and arranging video clips, they like > having one monitor to serve as a holding area / reference and one for active > work. Could someone recommend a good dual monitor video card with decent > support under Linux? I know this thread is a few days old, but I just got around to reading it. ;) You don't necessarily need a dual-output card to run two monitors, it just helps. I have in the past run as many as three monitors from three video cards in the same system. If you want to explore this route I'd suggest looking at the Xinerama-HOWTO from the LDP. As for dual VGA cards, I have successfully used two different ones in Linux recently. They're both currently available at Computer Geeks and pretty cheap for what you get: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=RV100-DDR http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2834PCB The first one is a "Powered by ATI" Radeon VE w/ 64MB DDR. I have one in my system at work driving two Trinitrons at 1920x1440 and 1600x1200. It's not bad, and recent versions of the XFree 4.2 ATI driver have hammered out the most annoying bugs. The biggest drawback with this card is that even though it's a single physical device, it has to be configured as two separate cards in X. For me this means running Xinerama, losing DRI, and only getting 3D on the "Primary" monitor. It may be possible to run two separate X servers and get 3D on both, but I doubt it. The other card is an NVidia GeForce2 MX w/ 32MB. I have this card at home running 1280x1024 on a pair of 19" Samsungs. As long as you use NVidia's proprietary driver you can run the TwinView feature and utilize both displays as a single device. It's actually possible to run GL apps across both monitors, or start one on one side and drag it to the other. The disadvantage to GeForce2MX based cards is that the secondary display has a pretty low bandwidth (150MHz?). IIRC you can't realistically go above 1280x1024 on the second monitor. Computer Geeks also happens to have at least two other dual monitor cards ATM. They're also Radeons, and one of them has VGA, DVI, and S-Video, two of which can be used at a time. - -- -Matt There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85TDac8/WFSz+GKMRAgYBAJkB+R632I6C8OIgkrV3yxafEkUpTACeL8gw VqOX71kUzhSeWv8dcgoOhTY= =3rAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
