Hi, Want dual head setup but want to avoid proprietary driver cards (like ATI, nVidia), then you can do that utilizing your on-board Intel Graphics (chipset >= 915G). All you need is a sDVO[1] card (Intel's proprietary technology) which comes for USD 20 or similar. The sDVO card requires a mobo with PCI-Express x16 slot and you can connect your output device like Monitor (no VGA port, but DVI[2] AFAIK) and TVs. The Xorg's 'intel' graphics drivers supports this[3], so be it GNU/Linux or FreeBSD, you can enjoy dual head with FOSS drivers :) . Also Intel has made available all technical documentation (required for developing drivers on other OSs) related to its graphics chipsets, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works License[4].
Okay, I've not tried this setup yet, and also not sure if we'll get sDVO cards in India. References: [1] http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915g/sb/cs-013296.htm [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface [3] http://wiki.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver [4] http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
