Mike Park wrote the following on 11/28/2011 12:55 PM: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Thomas Cameron > <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 haven't tried using separate display adapters, but I'm currently > running F15 on triple head using an ATi Radeon HD 5770 card (I'll > confirm this model once I get back from work). This card, if I recall > correctly, offers (2) DVI ports and (1) DisplayPort port (I had to > purchase a separate DisplayPort->DVI adapter), which fired up my > desktop on all three screens w/ minimal fiddling (on both Gnome 3 and > KDE 4). Any ATi card that includes the "eyefinity" feature supports 3 or more monitors. These cards use DVI/DP (HDMI cards do not support eyefinity to my knowledge) and will have 3 video output ports. I've purchased several HD5450 cards for ~ $30 that work fine in other OS's. I have no idea of the current state of ATi drivers in Linux. In general, Nvidia has had a better history of Linux support compared to ATi. -- 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
