Thanks all!<br><br>I'd prefer PCI-X but have the option of AGP if it makes sense budget-wise. Sounds like nVidia isn't so bad after all, so I will probably end up going that way.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:09 AM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My experience is with cheap nvidia cards. Basically, if they have 2<br>
outputs then you don't need to worry. All of them will have 256MB of<br>
RAM which is more than enough. $40 will get you a card with 1GB easy.<br>
<br>
Setting up dual monitors on nvidia is pretty easy. The first google<br>
search result (Ubuntu Dual Monitor with nVidia Driver) for this issue is<br>
my blog. Unfortunately, I'm working a software issue today, so the page<br>
is down, but here's the google cached version:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4qVCw0DH9eAJ:blog.jdpfu.com/2010/05/12/ubuntu-10-04-dual-monitor-with-nvidia-driver+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu&source=encrypted.google.com" target="_blank">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4qVCw0DH9eAJ:blog.jdpfu.com/2010/05/12/ubuntu-10-04-dual-monitor-with-nvidia-driver+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu&source=encrypted.google.com</a><br>
<br>
There aren't any Ubuntu-specific commands used except for the package<br>
manager command to load the proprietary nvidia drivers. I can't imagine<br>
why the other steps wouldn't work for other distros.<br>
<br>
Are you sure that you need/want an AGP card and not PCI-x?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On 08/31/2011 10:36 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> I just slapped CEntOS 6 on a box with some agp radeon card having dvi<br>
> and vga connectors. Dual display just worked. The only thing I had to do<br>
> was tell it which screen was on the left.<br>
> Yes. Nvidia must be confugured using the nvidia display manager tool<br>
> shipping with the closed source driver.<br>
> The neuvou [sic] driver was too unstable the last time I tried it in<br>
> 2009. It's should be much better now in current Ubuntu and Fedora.<br>
><br>
> On Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM, "Björn Gustafsson" <<a href="mailto:bg-ale@bjorng.net">bg-ale@bjorng.net</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bg-ale@bjorng.net">bg-ale@bjorng.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> My single-display system at home makes me sad when I have to work from my<br>
>> house, so I'm looking to create a dual-display setup on my Ubuntu box.<br>
>> Switching between virtual displays just isn't good enough for me. I'm just<br>
>> looking for more screen real estate, not gaming or other high frame-rate<br>
>> applications, so performance isn't a big issue as long as I get the<br>
> maximum<br>
>> resolution for my buck.<br>
>><br>
>> I've been pricing monitors that can handle 1920x1080, but haven't done the<br>
>> math yet to see how much video memory that requires.<br>
>><br>
>> Pricewatch pointed me at two budget-minded dual-head DVI cards, and I was<br>
>> wondering if anyone had pointers on which might be preferable. At work I<br>
>> have an ATI Radeon dual-head setup on Ubuntu so I'm confident that works.<br>
>> I've been reading that nVidia-based dual display configurations are<br>
> more of<br>
>> a hassle to set up, so that may drive me in the other direction.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> <a href="http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html" target="_blank">http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
> <a href="http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW" target="_blank">http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW</a><br>
> <<a href="http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW" target="_blank">http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW</a>><br>
>><br>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Björn<br></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Björn Gustafsson<br>