[olug] Multiple video cards and X11...

[Adam Lassek]

Unless, of course, you have an 8000 series card or higher, in which case the
proprietary driver is the only option.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Friday 22 August 2008 20:51:40 Dan Linder wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, but it sounds like you're using nVidia's proprietary stuff for dual
> head,
> not XOrg. That obviously won't expand to include a non-nVidia card.
> However,
> if you only need 2D, you could easily get by using the standard
> Linux/XOrg/DRI
> 'nv' driver.
>
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