Re: Working setup with two pci-e

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> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:30:29PM +0200, zwe...@gm... wrote:
>> Are the nVidia videocards the best choice with binary drivers for a dual
>> head system? Or maybe a mix ATI <-> nVidia, or maybe only Matrox.

> mixing a propietary-driven card such as nvidia (and possibly recent ATI
> cards ??) with another card is a little bit tricky : I once did that
> but I had to build two separate library trees in order to get each
> dedicated libraries matching each running instances of XFree, each tree
> with dedicated 3D libraries installed by their related drivers set.
> remember that after you have to rebuild all trees each time a new
> security hole is discovered around X (not that many, lately) it's a lot
> of work if you compare with having one single almost regular binary set
> by using two cards sharing the same drivers.

OK, no mixing. But which cards (two ATIs, twi nVidias or one Matrox) is the best choice for dual head systems, with use of XGL?

mfg
Mario Scheel
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