On Fri 20 Apr 2007 13:02:01 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: > have an Albatron KM51PV motherboard that has both VGA and DVI outputs > integrated, the chipset is nvidia nForce4 C51PV / MCP51. > > The main questions are: do both these video outputs work concurrently, > or am I also needing to plug in additional video card?
With suse 10.1/10.2 configuring xinerama in yast will take you about twice as long as configuring a single monitor. You will need the nvidia binary driver (enter ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ as repo, click go). It's out of the box. As to whether your mobo graphics hardware will work as you expect is another question. Google, hope, and try. I remember some talk about cheap nvidia graphics cards supposedly supporting vga and dvi, but on looking closer the dvi would only work when the vga was not connected - or some such take-the-customer-for-a-ride. Your mobo either does what you want or doesn't, no loss trying that first, and with no luck trying a better card next. Can't help with monitors for office use - whatever is cheap will do. Their picture alignment often sucks big way even on expensive models and you keep on pushing auto-fit each time you switch between BIOS screen, Linux console, and graphics. Difficult to tell in advance without hooking up the monitor first. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
