On 11/27/2011 01:41 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
Howdy All -
I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16
slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've
got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital
video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and
all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy.
I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my
main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff.
I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and
I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either
replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add
a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head.
Has anyone done this?
Thomas
Sorry it's been so long, but I thought I'd tell you what I found. I got
triple-head (three monitors) working on F17 using the ATI FirePro v4900.
It has one DVI port and two DisplayPorts.
I used two DisplayPort to DVI adapters, and I now have three 19"
Viewsonic flatscreens set up and working great.
Even cooler is I am using the native driver in F17. I have Gnomeshell
working just like I like it, and it is freaking AWESOME! I've also run
it with RHEL 6 and it's also perfect - desktop effects works great!
TC
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