James Hooker wrote: > Hi Everyone - > > I was wondering if anyone had any successful experiences with dual > monitors on Ubuntu, and maybe recommend a good graphics card that is > well supported and up to the task? >
I tried this with both an ATI Radeon X300 dual head card and a NVidia Geforce 7200GS (both cards PCI Express) and found that out of the two the NVidia card was much easier to get up and running with dual screens when using the proprietary NVidia driver. Works fine with a 17" LCD monitor and a 32" LCD TV. Both can run their native resolutions and they can act as two screens or one big screen. Not sure about the newer ATI cards for compatibility, I found that the X800 didn't work very well at all with either the free driver or the ATI proprietary driver. Never had any problems with older ATI cards though. > Im going to be running dual 24"screens (hopefully) if that's any help! > Just make sure you have the right connections on the graphics card. You might find that some of the newer cards have two DVI connectors and some of them have one DVI and one VGA connection. If it was me, I'd personally go for the DVI connection if the monitors supported it (which gives a better picture - not normally noticeable unless you're running long cables). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
