The FirePro V3900 is a nice dual-head entry level card: http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/v3900/Pages/v3900.aspx
Stepping up to the V4900 you get thee displays: http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/v4900/Pages/v4900.aspx Pretty much anything that says it supports Eyefinity will work nicely with the latest Catalyst drivers. Note that the FirePro and FireGL cards use a different, more heavily tested driver than the Radeon cards. I've personally never tried getting Eyefinity to work in Linux on a Radeon card, but that doesn't mean it won't work. ---- Paul Krizak cube: AR.250A8 Staff IT Engineer, IAS desk: 858-651-2467 Qualcomm, Inc cell: 512-791-0686 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Cameron Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] Opinions on multi-head Paul, do you have any specific card recommendations? I see Eyefinity listed on everything from cheap desktop class cards to massively expensive workstation cards. On 02/23/2012 11:05 AM, Krizak, Paul wrote: > I would hesitate to be quite so harsh on ATI graphics on Linux. I do agree > that the drivers are less friendly than the nVidia drivers, but as long as > you're using the binary blob drivers from AMD's website, they do work well. > And the Catalyst Control Center has been ported to Linux and is included with > the binary drivers, which makes setting up multi-head (even massive 6-display > Eyefinity setups) trivially easy. > > ---- > Paul Krizak > Staff IT Engineer, IAS > Qualcomm, Inc > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prentice Bisbal > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] Opinions on multi-head > > On 02/22/2012 07:04 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> Howdy All - >> >> I currently use a dual-head setup using a relatively inexpensive >> nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] card. I use the DVI and the >> VGA cables at the same time, and it works just fine. I can do wobbly >> windows and spinny desktops and all that jazz (yeah, I like the eye >> candy, sue me). >> >> I want to go to triple head. I am reasonably sure I can do it with >> e.g. an NVidia Quadro NVS 450, but I am curious as to whether the >> driver will do accelerated X? Three monitors will be nice, but not >> if I lose capabilities I have now with dual. >> >> So... anyone got any experience with triple-head or beyond? Any >> advice on NVidia Quadro vs. maybe ATI's offering? >> >> I'd love to hear any stories - good or bad - about accelerated X on >> more than two monitors. >> > > I wouldn't use anything but NVidia with Linux. Open source zealots complain > that the NVidia drivers aren't open source, but who cares? > NVidia gives them away for free, and they've been extremely supportive of > Linux since day one. I used to support high-end 3D scientific visualization > Linux workstations, and I always used Nvidia hardware. The performance is > awesome, the driver provides lots of tweaking, and it's incredibly well > documented! You will never go wrong using NVidia on Linux. > > I think Intel provides good Linux support for their video cards, but I have > no first hand knowledge. > > ATI's support of Linux leaves something to be desired. Some people say the > ATI support is good and open source, but after days of googling, I still > couldn't tell with absolute certainty which driver was the correct one for > the ATI chip I was working with. I recommend avoiding ATI altogether. > > As far as whether or not your accelerated effects would work across all the > monitors, the number of monitors your using shouldn't make a difference as > long as the driver/video card you are using supports those 3D affects. If it > works with one, it will work with 2, 3, 4, .... I would not try to > mix-and-match video cards and drivers, however. This shouldn't be an issue > with the Quadro NVS 450, since it's designed to support up to 4 displays from > a single card. > > -- > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
