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Since I want three displays (and I have three identical DVI-D monitors), do you think the v4900 is better or worse than the NVS-450? Any ideas? TC On 02/24/2012 10:57 AM, Krizak, Paul wrote: > 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 - -- Thomas Cameron, RHCA, RHCSS, RHCDS, RHCVA, RHCX Chief Architect, Canada and Central US 512-241-0774 office / 512-585-5631 cell http://people.redhat.com/tcameron/ IRC: choirboy / AIM: rhelguy / Yahoo: rhce_guy /Google+ http://ongpl.us/tdc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9P9UwACgkQmzle50YHwaDKkQCfeD1wT5/BdmlXga5H8A92C+AB GOgAoJmJIr2yQjA7GLqx8x9Wnw3HQRXG =9pN8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
