[ale] budget dual-head advice?

[Jim Kinney]

I just slapped CEntOS 6 on a box with some agp radeon card having dvi and
vga connectors. Dual display just worked. The only thing I had to do was
tell it which screen was on the left.
Yes. Nvidia must be confugured using the nvidia display manager tool
shipping with the closed source driver.
The neuvou [sic] driver was too unstable the last time I tried it in 2009.
It's should be much better now in current Ubuntu and Fedora.
On Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM, "Björn Gustafsson" <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
> My single-display system at home makes me sad when I have to work from my
> house, so I'm looking to create a dual-display setup on my Ubuntu box.
> Switching between virtual displays just isn't good enough for me. I'm just
> looking for more screen real estate, not gaming or other high frame-rate
> applications, so performance isn't a big issue as long as I get the
maximum
> resolution for my buck.
>
> I've been pricing monitors that can handle 1920x1080, but haven't done the
> math yet to see how much video memory that requires.
>
> Pricewatch pointed me at two budget-minded dual-head DVI cards, and I was
> wondering if anyone had pointers on which might be preferable. At work I
> have an ATI Radeon dual-head setup on Ubuntu so I'm confident that works.
> I've been reading that nVidia-based dual display configurations are more
of
> a hassle to set up, so that may drive me in the other direction.
>
>
http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html
>
> http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Björn
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