[wplug] Video card advice needed

[Bryon Gill]

I accomplished this using an ATI Radeon 9200 with the free drivers and the 
Xinerama extensions, and ran at a resolution of 2048x768.  I don't know if I 
have the X config file any longer but if I can dig it up I'll send it along.

I used a card that had VGA and DVI outputs, but I used a DVI to VGA adapter 
dongle and simply used two 17" CRT monitors that only had VGA inputs.  In 
retrospect I wish I had two identical monitors, one of the two I used was 
substantially brighter and it was fairly disorienting.

Bryon

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:

> Greg Akins wrote:
>> I'm looking to buy a video card to support dual monitors
>
> Are both monitors VGA?  DVI?
>
>> Does anyone have experience with the Matrox G450 using Linux?
>
> I used a Matrox G450 for several years in a dual-monitor setup.  It works 
> quite well for two VGA displays.  I had to abandon it when I got a DVI flat 
> panel.
>
>> Besides that, can anyone make a recommendation for one "well" supported by 
>> Linux and relatively inexpensive (seems like $85 is the entry level, I'd 
>> like to stay close to that)?
>
> Many of the dual-port NVidia and ATI video cards have both a VGA and DVI+ 
> port, so you can use two VGA or a VGA and a DVI display. Unfortunately, I've 
> found that in most cases, you have to use the binary-only driver available 
> from ATI or NVidia to support the dual-screen ability, which means that you 
> aren't using X's Xinerama extension, but a somewhat-supported Xinerama-like 
> functionality from the vendor driver.
>
>