> >Andrew, how's the image quality on your two LCDs? I'm driving two Dell >E171FP panels from a single Radeon 7500 card. The monitors are analog >and I've got a DVI->VGA adaptor on one of the ports. > >I ask because -- despite the current brokenness of always-on clone mode >-- the image quality has always been poor, even under XF 4.2. In a >nutshell, the DVI->VGA panel is fuzzy and the VGA panel has tons of >ghost lines and other image instabilities. Not to mention positioning >problems on both heads. > >I know this is not a panel h/w problem because I can drive the same >monitors from a Radeon 8500 Mac card on my OSX box and they look >wonderful. I'm still suspecting the Radeon driver under XFree86. Barry, I've noticed a difference in display quality when driving my flat panel with an nVidia gForce2 MX 200 vs. a Matrox G400. The flat panel has both DVI and analog (15-pin) inputs, but so far I've only had video cards with analog outputs. :( Anyhow, the Matrox looks better -- more crisp with less shadowing. Note, this was with my 15" 1024x768 monitor. I've looked at 17" 1280x1024 flat panels and my guess is that you'd have trouble getting *any* analog card to give you crystal clear output. >On a tangent: the various problems I'm having with the Radeon h/w under >XFree86 are making my Linux desktop experience too depressing. Can >anyone recommend a good dual-head card that is well supported by XFree86 >4.3, that can drive two VGA flat panels, and that costs no more than >about $150? I don't care about gaming, i just need a good s/w >development platform (i.e. look real nice for text). That's a very good question. Add to it: a card that has DVI output(s). Any recommendations? _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
