[olug] Multiple video cards and X11...

[Dan Linder]

I'm entertaining the thought of adding a second video card to my
system and start using three monitors.

My current card is a dual port eVGA 8600-GT (PCI Express x16), and I
only have a plain PCI slot left.  I really like NVidia and I'm
thinking about an eVGA GeForce 6200 card.  I know the potential speed
difference between these two cards will be quite a bit, but I don't
run much OpenGL stuff nor do I use the "desktop effects", 99% of the
time I use plain 2D video.

Anyone have any experience with driver compatibility with multiple
cards?  If I did go with an ATI (AMD?) video card, does XOrg/X11 have
any issues with a single desktop using all three screens?

(I know that most of this stuff is pretty cut-and-dried anymore, but
my last experience with multiple video cards in X11 was about 9 years
ago -- hence the reason I've only gone with dual-port video cards if
possible.)

Dan

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