On 3/13/08, eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been asked what specs of video card are needed for multi-head (3 > monitors side-by-side) X on Linux. I've googled of course, but I'd > rather get hints/pointers from folk here who have actually done this > with locally available iron. Howtos don't tell me what's available > here.
The best supported multi-head card available in the local market are the nVidia cards. The only problem I see is that most of multi-head cards available are dual-head only. You might need a second video card for the third monitor. The only card that I know that supports triple head on a single card is a card from Matrox. I can't remember if it was the G550 or the Parhelia. For those dual-head cards, if what you need is two VGA ports, look for cards that have both VGA and DVI ports. Those cards usually comes with a DVI-to-VGA converter so that yoou can get a 2nd VGA port. If what you need are two DVI ports, those cards are harder to find, but yeah, they're available. Usually, dual-DVI ports are on the high-end video cards. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
