--- "William D. Hamblen" <william.d.hamblen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Alex. > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alex Deucher wrote: > > 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. > > I looked through all of Dell's ATI offerings but I didn't see a card > that > was specifically dual DVI. Here's the long URL if anyone cares. > Many > cards don't have any specs listed with them; so some of those are > still possibilities. > > http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productlisting.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=RC956904&cat=snp&s=pub&category_id=5406&sku=&mnfsku=&SearchType=&Page=productlisting.aspx&Pageb4Search=&spagenum=1&orderby=&SubmitSearch=&iCompatid=&brandid=&mnf=265&InStock=&k=&prst=&prEnd= > I'm not sure they even sell them anymore. You'd probably have to get them on ebay or through some overstock reseller. I think Dell sold them with their slimline corporate boxes. > When you said "dual DVI radeon workstation cards" were you referring > to > the FireGL class cards? Since we do not need 3D support those are > out of > our price range. Or are you speculating that any dual-dvi radeon, > e.g. > something like the Asus Radeon 9600XT, would work - at least for 2D? > I was referring to the fireGL cards, but partner-built dual DVI cards should work as well. > Mostly right now I'm hitting myself in the head for not thinking of > using > two cards. It looks like you can get a PCI Radeon 7000 with DVI for > less > than $50 these days. Or a 9200SE is also well under $100. The price > is > right and it seems plausible to me that two cards would actually be > more > straightforward because each is only doing one fairly conventional > thing - > single head DVI. I suspect this is the way I'll go. Good luck with your project. Alex > > - 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
