Re: Video card for dual-head 1920x1200?

[Msquared <sub2 fedoralist msquared id au>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:20:52AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> You're hitting one of my biggest problems.
> I want dual head. (24" + 22" DELLs)
> I want 3D.
> And I want Xen.

I'm happy to not have 3D, since this is for a development workstation
(hence Xen and dual head together).

> But sadly enough nVidia doesn't official support Xen. (You can try to
> use their proprietary driver never the less [1]... but YMMV)

Yeah, I tried that, and had endless problems.  I *almost* got it working
but couldn't seem to make it actually work.  You'll see a post by
'Msquared' on that thread already - that's me.  :)

> As for your question, -for now- if you're looking for good OSS drivers
> with solid dual-head and Xen support, you should be aiming at ATI/AMD
> r300 based cards (ATI 9xxx?).

Thanks for the tip.  I'll hit up my local supplier (of I.T equipment!) on
Monday.

Regards, Msquared...