Postmortem (Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC)

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
Now I have two working displays connected to my PC. My PC's motherboard still has one free PCI slot, which I might use for another video card and 3rd display in the future. I ended up buying 2nd GeForce FX 5200, so now I have two FX 5200 cards, one having AGP interface and the other - PCI interfa

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 13:02 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > > - I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied. > > > However if an AGP card is much better, please let me kn

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > - I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied. > > However if an AGP card is much better, please let me know about it as > > well. > > You can also replace your AGP

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > After reading the article in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 about > this subject and seeing how simple it is to configure X-Window to handle > two displays, I would like to do this in my PC. > > * What is your experience with driving 2-3

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Tewner
I had 4 displays connected to my linux machine - unfortunately, they were 4 not-so-good PCI video cards, and my computer spent all its time writing to the PCI bus - Usable, but slow. So, I dedicated the linux machine to just managing the displays, and I worked using XDMCP from a different server.

Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
After reading the article in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 about this subject and seeing how simple it is to configure X-Window to handle two displays, I would like to do this in my PC. * What is your experience with driving 2-3 displays from your Linux PC? * Given the following situation,