Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:49, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com wrote: The docs for that card do mention it can drive vga with the appropriate displayport to vga adaptor cables, but that sounds like a rather rude and expensive conversion hack at ~$20-$30/cable. Well,my

Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, My current setup includes a PCI-X ATI X1600 board, which its dual DVI+VGA outputs. That card has two 19' monitors connected, a DVI one and a VGA-only one, both LGs. Now, suppose I don't want to buy another gfx board, but rather connect an external USB-to-VGA adapters like these:

Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com writes: My current setup includes a PCI-X ATI X1600 board, which its dual DVI+VGA outputs. That card has two 19' monitors connected, a DVI one and a VGA-only one, both LGs. Now, suppose I don't want to buy another gfx board, but rather connect

Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 04/17/2012 08:23 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Fernando Cassiafcas...@gmail.com writes: My current setup includes a PCI-X ATI X1600 board, which its dual DVI+VGA outputs. That card has two 19' monitors connected, a DVI one and a VGA-only one, both LGs. Now, suppose I

Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 23:54, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: I've been researching triple-head for quite a while, and the lest evil option I've come up with is the AMD FirePro 4900. It natively supports triple head from one card, has Linux drivers and config tools

Re: Triple-head with a 2nd (different) gfx card, possible?

2012-04-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com writes: I've been researching triple-head for quite a while, and the lest evil option I've come up with is the AMD FirePro 4900. It natively supports triple head from one card, has Linux drivers and config tools available from AMD, and is not