Dual head AGP video card recommendations
Peter Boy
pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Sun Apr 25 00:47:46 UTC 2004
Am Sa, den 24.04.2004 schrieb Peter Eddy um 17:26:
> The Matrox requires those perpetually in beta drivers to run in xinerama
> mode (or at least run will, as far as I can tell) while the other
> configuration with the two different cards doesn't require any special
> drivers.
MGA 550 or higher work with the XFree drivers (they don't need the
Matrox hal library anymore)
> One more thing worth mentioning, if you use KDE then you may not be
> happy with its font rendering on a dual-head machine. Gnome is ok, but
> with KDE you really need to turn off the font server (xfs) and specify
> font paths in XF86Config directly, even then though KTerm fonts are awful.
Currently, Gnome does much a better job with xinerama and Matrox als
KDE.
I agree with you about the Matrox (I have a G550 dual head configuration
on an older machine here, OpenOffice crashes on it).
On the other hand: I didn't even succeed to compile the Nvidia driver
for my brand new x86_64 machine and Fedora core 2 test. The driver
depends on a header file, which seems not to be at the place the driver
expects it anymore.
A little bit tricky with dual head configuration, currently.
Peter
>
> Peter
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