Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dana J. Laude wrote: I have a matrox G450 that I picked off eBay for $35 and it works quite well and the price was right. It's a older card though, so for gaming I wouldn't really recommend it... although the card works ok, 3D stuff is a tad on the slow side. For normal stuff it works great though, and 2 monitors are very cool.. which I was running under debian unstable with windowmaker. I run a G450 dual head, be warned there is a problem with gamma correction on the second head. From what I gather it is a hardware limitation. If you don't need gamma correction, not a problem. For my setup with BenQ FP951s, they were way too bright and the OSD wouldn't adjust down enough. Later, Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/ | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Thursday 07 October 2004 15:42, Bill Carlson wrote: I run a G450 dual head, be warned there is a problem with gamma correction on the second head. From what I gather it is a hardware limitation. If you don't need gamma correction, not a problem. For my setup with BenQ FP951s, they were way too bright and the OSD wouldn't adjust down enough. Thanks for the info Bill. That would explain the excessive brightness on the second display here. One of these days I'll have to look for a newer video card. Dana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recomended dual head video card
Hi, * Bill Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041008 06:44]: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dana J. Laude wrote: I have a matrox G450 that I picked off eBay for $35 and it works quite well and the price was right. It's a older card though, so for gaming I wouldn't really recommend it... although the card works ok, 3D stuff is a tad on the slow side. For normal stuff it works great though, and 2 monitors are very cool.. which I was running under debian unstable with windowmaker. I run a G450 dual head, be warned there is a problem with gamma correction on the second head. From what I gather it is a hardware limitation. So this problem is exclusive to the G450? If so I think I will get a P750. It has dual DVI and the option of running a third output for video or RGB. Thanks for the input everyone. Cheers, Nick. -- Debian 3.1 Linux twofish 2.6.8-looxt93c4 i686 GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:44:49 +0900, Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, for reasons I won't bother going into I'm about turn a server machine into a workstation (and perhaps occasional game machine). There are two nice 1280x1024 17 inch digital LCD displays available (Mitsubishi RTD179S) [1], so I thought I'd go out and get myself a nice dual head video card. But which to choose? My budget is fairly generous. My machines motherboard has and AGP slot so I thought an AGP card would be best. I've had a bit of a look at the ATI web site and it seems that the FireGL Z1-128 [2] might suit me well. I briefly looked into nvidia cards, but seem to remember there may be some issues with drivers for 2.6 kernels. I saw the nvidia vs ati thread a few days ago, but there seemed to be little in the way of conclusions or specific reports of experiences with cards. Anyone have anything to add? Any insights would be much appreciated. This is the first time that I've ever had to choose a video card. Please note that I'm not scared of compiling kernels or running bleeding edge software: I've been using 2.6 since the pre days and Debian unstable for about 4 years. Matrox cards are quite good for dual displays, although the price comes at a premium too. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Nick Hastings wrote: I've had a bit of a look at the ATI web site and it seems that the FireGL Z1-128 [2] might suit me well. Either that, or any nVidia card with dual outputs. You can have it dual-DVI or DVI+VGA (the DVI port has the VGA signals as well, and the cards come with an adaptor plug). I briefly looked into nvidia cards, but seem to remember there may be some issues with drivers for 2.6 kernels. Not anymore. And they are the fastest ones you will find. As long as you don't mind relying on non-free drivers, because if you do, the FireGL *may* be a much better choice (I don't know if it uses free drivers or not). -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Tuesday October 5 at 02:44pm Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My machines motherboard has and AGP slot so I thought an AGP card would be best. Another alternative is to run two video cards. I did that for a long time, with an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440 SE (AGP) and a cheap Matrox (PCI), then replaced the Matrox with an Nvidia TNT2(PCI). Both setups worked great, there was only a little trouble with the kernel switching to the PCI card if I set the bios to use AGP, so I just set it to use PCI all the time. For the Nvidia cards, I used Nvidia's non-free drivers. They work awesome. For the Matrox, I just used the in-tree kernel driver. Worked just fine. Also, don't try dual-booting this with Win2k. I think I got it working, but it sure sucked. But if money is not an obstacle, I would start with looking for used Matrox cards on Ebay. You should be able to get something pretty decent for less than retail. -- -johann koenig Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 55th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/ pgp9b53KSFY7m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recomended dual head video card
On Monday 04 October 2004 23:44, Nick Hastings wrote: Hi all, for reasons I won't bother going into I'm about turn a server machine into a workstation (and perhaps occasional game machine). There are two nice 1280x1024 17 inch digital LCD displays available (Mitsubishi RTD179S) [1], so I thought I'd go out and get myself a nice dual head video card. But which to choose? My budget is fairly generous. My machines motherboard has and AGP slot so I thought an AGP card would be best. I've had a bit of a look at the ATI web site and it seems that the FireGL Z1-128 [2] might suit me well. I have a matrox G450 that I picked off eBay for $35 and it works quite well and the price was right. It's a older card though, so for gaming I wouldn't really recommend it... although the card works ok, 3D stuff is a tad on the slow side. For normal stuff it works great though, and 2 monitors are very cool.. which I was running under debian unstable with windowmaker. I'm sure there is something better out there, but I've never had a problem with Matrox cards under linux. Hopefully someone can ring in here about some of the newer cards available. Dana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
