After reading the article in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 about
this subject and seeing how simple it is to configure X-Window to handle
two displays, I would like to do this in my PC.
* What is your experience with driving 2-3 displays from your Linux PC?
* Given the following situation, what would you recommend/keep away
from?
Hardware:
My PC currently has the "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev
a1)" (according to lspci) video card in an AGP slot.
It also has two free PCI slots.
Installation:
Linux flavor being used - Debian Etch, updated packages.
X-Window: Xorg version: 7.1.0-19.
Video driver being used: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
>From /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.2.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
* Specific issues and questions:
1. What is the best video card nowadays, by the following criteria:
- Linux support
- Support for OpenGL in Linux
- Support for 3D effects in Linux
- On the other hand, I am not a gamer and don't expect to play games on
it.
- I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied.
However if an AGP card is much better, please let me know about it as
well.
2. Is there any problem using two different video cards (say, nVidia and
ATI) in the same PC?
3. Not directly related to the above, but insights would be helpful:
I have a problem with the gspca Webcam driver - when trying to use any
application using a Webcam, the process gets stuck and cannot be killed
(i.e. the problem is in the driver). The problem seems to be associated
with the video card/driver, because in another PC (with an ATI driver),
the gspca driver and Webcam work OK.
Does anyone know anything about this problem? I already asked the gspca
developer and in some IRC forums - but found no help there.
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