Video card for dual-head 1920x1200?

[Msquared]

Hi, guys!

I'm looking for a video card that supports two 1920x1200 monitors using
open-source drivers under Xen on Fedora 8.

I currently have an nVidia 8500GT, but I'm having issues with dual-screen
under the open-source drivers, and the proprietary drivers don't support
Xen.

I have not yet purchased the 1920x1200 screens, as I wanted to make sure
that my card supported them first.  Since I'm having so many problems with
the nVidia, I'm looking for an alternative card.  The monitors I will most
likely purchase are 2 Samsung 245B.

Regards, Msquared...

[ne...]

On 30/11/2007, Msquared <sub2.fedoralist(a)msquared.id.au&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, guys!
>
>  I'm looking for a video card that supports two 1920x1200 monitors using
>  open-source drivers under Xen on Fedora 8. 
Have you contacted your local Matrox
dealer yet?
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/dh2go/digital/home.php
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/digital/home.php
Seems these will do what you what with ease...

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[Msquared]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:20:52AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:

>  You're hitting one of my biggest problems.
>  I want dual head. (24" + 22" DELLs)
>  I want 3D.
>  And I want Xen. 
I'm happy to not have 3D, since this is for a development workstation
(hence Xen and dual head together).

>  But sadly enough nVidia doesn't official support Xen. (You can
> try to
>  use their proprietary driver never the less [1]... but YMMV) 
Yeah, I tried that, and had endless problems.  I *almost* got it working
but couldn't seem to make it actually work.  You'll see a post by
'Msquared' on that thread already - that's me.  :)

>  As for your question, -for now- if you're looking for good OSS
> drivers
>  with solid dual-head and Xen support, you should be aiming at ATI/AMD
>  r300 based cards (ATI 9xxx?). 
Thanks for the tip.  I'll hit up my local supplier (of I.T equipment!) on
Monday.

Regards, Msquared...

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:38 +0900, Msquared wrote:
>  Hi, guys!
>  
>  I'm looking for a video card that supports two 1920x1200 monitors using
>  open-source drivers under Xen on Fedora 8.
>  
>  I currently have an nVidia 8500GT, but I'm having issues with dual-screen
>  under the open-source drivers, and the proprietary drivers don't support
>  Xen.
>  
>  I have not yet purchased the 1920x1200 screens, as I wanted to make sure
>  that my card supported them first.  Since I'm having so many problems with
>  the nVidia, I'm looking for an alternative card.  The monitors I will most
>  likely purchase are 2 Samsung 245B.
>  
>  Regards, Msquared...
>   

You're hitting one of my biggest problems.
I want dual head. (24" + 22" DELLs)
I want 3D.
And I want Xen.

But sadly enough nVidia doesn't official support Xen. (You can try to
use their proprietary driver never the less [1]... but YMMV)

In the end, I kept the nVidia drivers (for my 6800) and the 3D
(proprietary drivers) but replaced Xen with VMWare server.

As for your question, -for now- if you're looking for good OSS drivers
with solid dual-head and Xen support, you should be aiming at ATI/AMD
r300 based cards (ATI 9xxx?).
In a couple of months the new open ATI/AMD RadeonHD should be mature
enough for production - giving you the magic bullet of dual-head, xen
and decent 3D.

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=95483&highlight=xen