[olug] Video Card Question

[Sam Tetherow]

I would suggest getting an nvidia card. Anything you can get new will 
have dual outputs so you can hook up two monitors.

I would not suggest an ATI card. I just got one for a new abit board I 
got and I really wished I would have done more research. It appears that 
you cannot use DRI with xinerama using the proprietary driver and you 
can't get 3d rendering with the opensource driver (not sure if you can 
use DRI and xinerama on the opensource driver either haven't tried yet). 
Also using the fglrx (proprietary) driver the cursor is hosed on the 
second monitor.

I don't seem to run into these issues with nvidia cards. It uses a 
pseudo dri and xinerama support is flawless.

Sam Tetherow

John Moran wrote:
> I want to use two identical displays on my machine.  I am running
> Ubuntu Edgy.  I am looking for advice about choosing a graphics card.
>
> I really didn't want to ask, because I feel like I should have been
> able to google a good answer for this, but I've turned up nothing.
> So, I would really be grateful for some advice about running two
> monitors and choosing a good card to do it with.
>
> TIA
>
> John
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