Dual Monitor... which card?

[Mike Lewis]

I have an ASUS P4C800 motherboard and plan to run 2 Dell 1905FP monitors on either RedHat or Mandrake Linux.

I like the Matrox G550 cards, just because I'm familiar with them on Windows machines.

Would this card work on a dual-monitor Linux setup, or is there a better choice? The card must work with both Windows and Linux.


Thank you,

Mike

[gehidore]

gfx5*00 something would work.

[Mike Lewis]

What about any of the Radeon 9000 series?

[rocketpcguy]

unlike ati, nvidia has proper drivers for linux

[Davno]

As long as the card have 2 adapter at the back, i used an fx5600 and now a 6600gt with no problem with dual monitor. And like said previously Nvidia does provide up to date Linux drivers. :D

[StarTiger]

I have a MSI nVidia gForceFX 5500 that works great with dual monitors on both the linux and windoes sides of my box.

I'd recoomend sticking to a card with an nVidia chipset, their driver support for linux is WAYYYYY better than ATI's.

Look around any good online Hardware site and look though their video cards

Here's a few posibilities: about 250 of them. Some under $40us.

Dulal DVI out's (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=0)
Dual VGA's (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=0)
VGA & DVI outs (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=0)

I Recomend PNY (Lifetime warentee), or MSI. Then the hard part is pickingout a chipset you like and a price.:D

[Fryguy8]

any nvidia card will work fine (remember you can use a DVI-VGA adapter to get 2 VGA-outs on models if need be). Support is great in the driverset, and does xinerama properly etc. Best bet would be to pick up an nvidia card that is a generation or two (or three..) old, depending on the 3d capabilities that you need. Geforce4 MX cards can be had for under $50, and should do everything that you need.

[JamminJoeyB]

Everyone is correct on this one. NVidia is the way to go. I run a Geforce2 AGP and Rivi TNT2 PCI. With dual monitors. My Next upgrade will be to a dual headed AGP card with a lcd in addition to my 2 CRTs. Xinerama works great on 2. Cant wait till I'm running 3. But that will be next year when I build my 64 bit system.

[rdeschene2]

Note that Deals Direct has Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Display 32MB, AGP card on for $50 Canadian.

http://www.dealsdirect.com/used/used.html#Videocards

Definitely older technology, but could still be decent depending on what you need.

Rick D.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by Mike Lewis
I have an ASUS P4C800 motherboard and plan to run 2 Dell 1905FP monitors on either RedHat or Mandrake Linux.

I like the Matrox G550 cards, just because I'm familiar with them on Windows machines.

Would this card work on a dual-monitor Linux setup, or is there a better choice? The card must work with both Windows and Linux.


Thank you,

Mike

Matrox series cards have excellent support under Linux-- they wrote the drivers themselves! One of the nicest dual head cards I've used was a Matrox Millenium G450 16MB dual VGA.

[DimGR]

i have dual monitors on my 9600 XT

:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4893 (X4.3.0-8.10.19)



display: :0.0 screen: 1
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.4893 (X4.3.0-8.10.19)


http://img186.exs.cx/img186/1395/snapshot4198gt.th.jpg (http://img186.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img186&image=snapshot4198gt.jpg)
http://img186.exs.cx/img186/6189/snapshot4188om.th.jpg (http://img186.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img186&image=snapshot4188om.jpg)

[Mike Lewis]

Thank you for your reply... Bought a new graphics card but believe I can take your inputs and adapt them.

Thanks again.

Mike