Has anyone set up more than 2 Displays?

Keven Ring keven at mitre.org
Thu Apr 15 13:37:39 UTC 2004


Jay Daniels wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:40:42AM -0500, Holm, Jack wrote:
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>>I have a request to set up 3 Displays, on one machine so far I have only
>>done 2, using a Nvidia GeForce 4 card.
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>>Can I enable the onboard graphic card, or will need another graphics
>>card.
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>>What other limits might I run in to,, or suggestions do you have ?
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>>Thanks.
>>Jack
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>I was hoping someone had a digital video card with multiple ports
>similar to a serial port replicator that would allow you run up to 3, 4
>or 6 LCD displays from a single video card?
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>This seems like the ideal setup when using Linux.  Run different
>terminals and programs on each display.  Have the displays in front of
>you like an arc were you could look around to your left and right to
>monitor your network without fooling with multiple pc's or virtual
>desktops on a single monitor.  Like something out of a scifi movie huh!
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>Make any sense?  Is there a single video card which will run 3 or more
>displays in Linux?
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>jay
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Matrox makes a 3 channel AGP card.  I believe it's called a Piranah.  
Haven't tried it though..

I know someone in the office with 4 displays, but they run XP.  Perhaps 
I can try and convince him to load linux for grins...






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