--- "William D. Hamblen" <William.D.Hamblen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this isn't an inappropriate question for the list but I've > spent a > lot of time looking for a "safe bet" and haven't found anything. > > I'd like to setup a couple of RHEL WS3 workstations with dual flat > panels > and shared desktop (xinerama): one with 1600x1200 and 1280x1024 > displays > and one with two 1280x1024 displays. We care not at all about > accelerated > 3D - we just want nice clean 2D support on these systems. > > The hardware compatibility list doesn't list any video controllers at > all > for RHEL 3. In the Desktop/Workstation class the Dell Precision > Workstations are "certified". The nVidia Quadro4 280 NVS is an > option on > that system at a somewhat reasonable cost, though I have not priced > the > extra cost dual-DVI cable yet. Also, my experience with nVidia is > that > you really need to use their proprietary driver for anything but the > most > basic functionality. I don't have a particular problem with that as > long > as I knew ahead of time that it would work with the RHEL kernel. > > Does anybody have success stories to share? You know, something like > "I'm > using this and it worked right out of the box with my two flat > panels". > It's so much easier to find dual-DVI cards that do not function > correctly > in linux. :-) > Apparently the oem Dell dual DVI radeon VE cards work pretty well. I don't have such a card myself, but I've heard of success stories on some lists. I suspect the dual DVI radeon workstation cards should also work, but that's just conjecture on my part. The open source radeon driver has code to handle dual dvi. You could also use two separate cards with DVI ports. Alex > I'll take negative reports too if that's all you have. Email off the > list > is fine with me if people don't want to badmouth a vendor in a public > > forum. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > - Bill Hamblen > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
