On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote: > I'm looking for a good dual-head card with good 3d support to use with > xinerama. I was thinking about one of the MSI cards that has dual-head > (geforce4) that is a good price, around $120. Does anyone have any > experience here? I need something $160 or less. I know the Radeon seems to > be popular, but I've never been an ATI fan.
I am an ATI fan now: I use a Radeon 9000 (R250If) for dual head. It works fine with Xinerama, but no 3d acceleration (because DRI and Xinerama don't work together). *However*, I use mergedfb (http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276) to provide hardware accelerated 3d across both heads. I imagine this will be in the next release of XFree86, but otherwise, you can download updated drivers that drop in on top of XFree 4.3 from the URI mentioned at the bottom of the bug. A dual head 32MB Radeon 7000 (1xDVI, 1xVGA) (the cheapest ATI option that can do dual head (I think)) should cost as little as $42 ... a 128MB dual head Radeon 9000 perhaps $72 ... or you could get something faster for more money! $160 should get you a Radeon 9600 128MB with 1xDVI, 1xVGA. I believe DRI doesn't work with these though - so you'd need to use the other 3D drivers - and I've lost the URI for them (I think it's somewhere in Germany). I do wish they'd just put two DVI connectors on boards these days (Apart from really good boards that have 30-bpp colour capability ... at which point analogue is preferable!) Does anyone know what cards are available with dual-DVI output? HTH, -- Bill Gallafent. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
