My audio system is running 2 fanless ATI cards, one AGP and one PCI. I would be happy to send my xfree config files off list if you like. I am using fedora core 1 which set it all up automagically for me. I had heaps of trouble using an older distro (hence an older xfree) to get dual head behaviour from my ATI cards and from an NVidia card. A fanless card goes a long way! There is a water cooled system made by Zalman which allows you to replace the video fans with water cooled pipes. -Joe D On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:17, Florin Andrei wrote: > Something apparently unrelated to Linux audio, but in fact it is. Let me > explain. > > 1. Is there a way to run an NVidia card dual-head (two monitors) using > the open source drivers? > 2. Is there a way to silence the fan on an NVidia-based card other than > loading up the proprietary drivers? (which silences it as long as there > is no hard graphics work) > > Being able to extend the desktop across two monitors, and not having to > bear the obnoxious fan on the graphics card are the reasons why i'm > using the NVidia proprietary driver, because: > - i want to use two monitors because audio apps are hungry for desktop > real estate > - the noisy fan is very disturbing when doing any kind of audio work > > But there's a nasty side-effect of the proprietary driver - the system > seems to freeze for a few seconds every once in a while (about once a > day). > There are no side-effects of the open source driver, but i don't know > how to tell it to work in dual-head mode and i don't know how to silence > the fan.
