Re: Support for ATI hardware

[TIV <gtivey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Seeing that my primary box seems to have fried yesterday (giving me the
> > excuse to get something new in the process), I was wondering how the state
> > of support for ATI graphics cards is these days? I know Nvidia is
> > generally preferred on OS OSes but alas, I can't find a cheap, fanless
> > dual head nVidia card anywhere (I couldn't care less for 3d accelleration,
> > but I hate fan noise) but plenty of ATI ones that fit the bill, cheap too.
> >    
>
> If you aren't interested in 3D but you want multimonitor support, look for
> older PCI cards.  I bought a few Radeon 7000 models from newegg.com
> (Powercolor?  I forget); they had dual outputs in the back, but I couldn't
> get them both to work.  However, they were cheap and PCI, so I just used
> up a few slots and had 3 monitors working.
>
> I remember reading about someone using FreeBSD and 3 ATI Radeon 7500s to
> get 3D and multihead display; I haven't tried it myself.  I saw some
> 7000-series PCI cards on a shelf at my local CompUSA for ~$30, recently.
>
> I would love it if there was a way to do both multimonitor and 3D, easily.
> I like the ATI 9600 Pro that I'm using now, but if, say, the NVIDIA
> driver supported multiple cards and output and 3D, I'd be investing in
> multiple new cards.
>
>
>
>  
Hi Y'all ---

   For those of you interested in using "Dual Head", Xorg supports 
Matrox G450
and G550 and with binary from Matrox, the G400. For more information. 
take  a
look here ------->   http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/mga.4.html

Best regards,
Tiv