Good Fedora-compatible multi-monitor video card recommendation

[Digimer]

On 17/02/14 10:13 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> writes:
>> What would be a good (as in, relatively painless) video card for
>> driving as many 1080p monitors as possible? I'm not concerned about 3D
>> performance at all... It will be to display terminals/rarely-changing
>> web pages only.
>>
>> I know Matrox sort of specializes in multi-monitor setups, but I can't
>> say I've heard them recommended much.
>
> I'm currently running four big monitors on an ATI Radeon HD, so if you
> can fit three of those cards into a box, that 's 12 monitors right off
> the bat, and you could probably add some DP splitters to get more.
>
> I've tried a matrox card.  In theory, it can drive up to 12 monitors
> with four triple-head-to-go adapters, but it had some driver issues that
> kept me from using it (mostly dealing with vlc and youtube) and they
> didn't officially (or actually, when I reported bugs) support the
> version of Fedora I was running anyway.
>
> But, if they happen to support the version of the kernel you're running,
> and you don't need 3D or video, they're a good choice, although multiple
> HD cards would probably be cheaper.

You're the 3rd person to recommend looking at ATI, so I will do that. 
Thank you kindly!

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