I built boxes with Asus mother boards for our Riv based on CentOS 6.8 and use the integrated video. This may just be a quick fix but since my monitors have both VGA and DVI ports as well and the MB, I hooked one monitor to the VGA and one to the DVI and I had instant seamless dual monitors without adding or changing any drivers.
Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Wayne Merricks < waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> wrote: > If you have any recent Intel they will drive 2 monitors on the open source > monitors very well for standard desktop use. Failing that any of the older > NVIDIA cards should work fine. I'm running a passively cooled Nvidia GT610 > which cost me about £40 a few years ago. In my experience running two > cards just causes problems and sadly even though I don't agree with some of > the NVIDIA ways of doing things, AMD GPUs are still a bit crashy (or they > overheat like crazy on the linux drivers and spin all the fans up). > > One caveat, I don't know what driver versions Centos 6 has for the open > source graphics and I have had freezes with the NVIDIA blob drivers on > occasion. > > Short story, Intel if you can (but not Skylake yet), failing that Nvidia > on the open source drivers or the blob if necessary. > > > > On 23/08/16 07:41, Rich Stivers wrote: > >> I would like to set up dual monitors for both of our Rivendell >> workstations. I'm running Centos 6 with the >> latest Rivendell version. >> >> o Which video cards work well with Centos 6 and Rivendell? >> >> o Has anyone set up dual displays in Centos 6 without a lot of trial and >> error with video driver versions? >> >> o Is it more cost/performance effective to have one card with two video >> outputs, or two cards of the >> same model? >> >> All comments welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Rich Stivers >> KKUP-FM 91.5, Cupertino / San Jose, CA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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