Re: Linuxconsole-dev digest, Vol 1 #934 - 1 msg

[Helge H. <hel...@ai...>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:42:06AM -0800, yitzhak bar geva wrote:
> Multihead is an issue which interests me very much
> also. I have heard that some of the Matrox cards,
> G450, G550 are suitable. I recall Aivils having said
> that the multihead must have seperate PCI addresses
> for each head. Not all of the dual cards have seperate
> PCI addresses. Personally, I don't have experience
> with the Matrox cards, but I am very interested in
> hearing from someone who has used them.
> Yitzhak Bar Geva

You mean multihead with multiple keyboards, right?

It is possible with the G550, but it doesn't have multiple PCI
addresses.  That means you have to use the unaccelerated framebuffer 
xserver for the second head.  It is ok if you don't need high performance.
It is ok for webbrowsing and word processing, at least.  2D games may be ok,
3D games definitely not.

Helge Hafting