Quite a few cards support dual (matrox does a triple) head on card, I have a GeForce4 MX 440 which has tv out which I have configured as a second monitor.
You can get say a LeadTek GeForce4 4200 MyVivo for about $230 which has t monitor outputs (DVI and VGA) and TV in and out. With the nvidia binary drivers you can specify just about any configuration you could think of (clone, zoom, adjacent) You can even run 2 X servers on the one card which would let two people use the computer independantly if you had enough keyboards and mice I guess. It can treats the two screens as one X display, so you don't need Xinerama. It's very nice to use when you have two monitors. Even good TVs start to look blurry at about 800x600. cheers, Woody On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:58:37AM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > Try having a look at the Xinerama FAQ at TLDP - > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ > > Jon > > -=> -----Original Message----- > -=> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -=> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete de Zwart > -=> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:39 AM > -=> To: Kevin Saenz > -=> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -=> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dual head question > -=> > -=> > -=> What video cards were you considering on using? > -=> > -=> Matrox has some nice dual headed cards. > -=> > -=> NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia > -=> cards, if you can prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it. > -=> > http://www.tldp.org/ has some good documents about it. > > Pete de Zwart. > > Around about 1104h 13/08/2003, Kevin Saenz emitted the following wisdom: > > I would like to configure my machine so that can have 2 monitors > > hanging off one machine. Am I correct in assuming that I would need to > > > buy another video card which will send signals to the second monitor? > > Would I experience some issue with running pci and agp graphic > together? > > Ideally I would need to have identical graphic cards. Or are there > cards > > that have 2 monitor outputs? > > Matrox, or ATI would be the way to go for dual head on one card. > > -- > The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: > Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the > next supply will be coming next week. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
