[NCLUG] dualhead dvi video card w. open drivers ?

[Mike Jensen]

I have an nvidia card with proprietary drivers running dual head....are you 
intrested in looking at my XF86Config?
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 11:42, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> I'm looking for a card that would let me run dual-headed dvi at
> 1600x1200 each, with non-proprietary drivers.
>
> Right now, I'm stuck with an nvidia card, and
>
> 	1. the nv driver doesn't seem to allow it to run in
> dual-headed mode
> 	2. the proprietary nvidia driver is reported to crap out on
> FC2 (and I hate binary-only drivers for political reasons anyway :) )
>
> So, I've been looking in the general direction of Matrox, and it looks
> like the P650 is also proprietary-only. The 550 won't do DVI (at least
> a bunch of folks I know tried and could only get it to work in analog
> mode). I also heard that the 550 only does 1280x1024 in dual-headed
> (analog) mode... Am I SOL, or is there another alternative ?
>
> Oh, and I don't care (much) about 3d accel -- all I want is screen
> real-estate (and freedom :) )...
>
> Thanks much,
> Gabriel
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