Hello Simon, NVIDIA 9600GT seems to be not very expensive and enough powerfull for my application (2 DVI outputs). However, the port is PCI-express and not PCI-e (better for recent hardware). Thanx to share this informations. ++
Jack Le 17 juil. 08 à 09:20, Simon Wise a écrit : > > On 13 Jul 2008, at 7:28 AM, Jack wrote: > >> I would like to use one PC with ubuntu and 2 graphic cards with 2 >> outputs (total : 4 video outputs). >> I usually use a Mac. >> Can you give me a good harware configuation using Pd and GEM >> equivalent to a MacPro configuration (2 intel Quad-core 2,8 GHz and 2 >> ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT) ? Not too expensive please ! > > I did just that a couple of weeks ago - > > I used 2x quite different NVIDIA cards - an older NVIDIA 6800 card > and a cheaper but newer Gigabyte card with an NVIDIA 9600GT chip > [less than $200 here in Australia], both PCI-E. The motherboard has > an NVIDIA chipset. Both work fine together, the NVIDIA driver > recognises them both easily. > > I could put each in Twinview mode then use 2 gemwindows [a while > back I successfully tried the multi-window version of Gem, but > haven't done so recently], but instead I set up xorg to give 4 > separate displays for different Gem windows (4 instances of Pd, one > running on each of the 4 displays). I may buy another of the 9600 > cards and see if I can get a single large gemwindow for all 4 > projectors using the SLI link - but I haven't done that yet. > > I run Debian (the Sidux distribution with a 2.6.25 kernel. The > processor is an oldish dual core AMD. > > simon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
