If you are looking to pick up a Matrox card, check out this site. They have odds and ends of stuff for sale and occasionally I see something that I pick up. Just so happens the have the Matrox G450 right now.
16MB Matrox G450 (Dual Monitor) 4x AGP Video Card --1+ $ 7.49
http://www.txmicro.com
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jure Pecar
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Anybody ever done 6 monitors on one server before?
> :)
>
>
> On Thu, 04 May 2006 15:59:45 -0500
> "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I know that with the right video card(s) you can have two monitors,
> > but has anybody had 6?
>
> I did 5 with matrox cards (1x g450 + 4x millenium). Did both X and fb -
> it's kinda interesting to see 5 different divx playing off the same
> machine :)
>
> Matrox cards are designed exatcly for the kind of thing you're looking
> for. Just one word of warning - get older models, like g400/450/550
> (they're dirt cheap from ebay), not the newer ones (parhelia & co),
> since the drivers for the newer ones are nonexistant or next to useless.
>
> It would be a nice experiment to get four or five 4-head pci models and
> stuff them into one box ... :)~
>
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>
> Jure Pe?ar
> http://jure.pecar.org
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