On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Howdy All - > > I have Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard with a single PCI Express 2.0 x16 > slot. It currently has a decent NVidia card - a GeForce 7300 GT. I've > got two monitors attached, one via the VGA port and one via the digital > video port. It works well, I get accelerated X and wobbly windows and > all that silliness. Guilty pleasure: I like eye candy. > > I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my > main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff. > > I am wondering, since my motherboard has a four PCI Express x1 ports and > I see PCI Express x1 video cards for decent prices, if I can either > replace my single card with two identical two-port X1 cards, or just add > a single X1 video card to what I already have and get triple head. > > Has anyone done this? I've used a Matrox M9140 LP PCIe x16 card which provides four monitor connections successfully under Fedora 12 and 14, but I had to use the proprietary Matrox driver. However, if you can find a PCIe x1 card that provides one monitor connection, I don't see why it wouldn't work unless your power supply isn't big enough to run it. -- Dale Dellutri -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
