On Tuesday 26 August 2008 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need > > to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu > > (and Windows XP and Vista). > > > > Since there are always swings around about "best linux support" which > > I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, > > AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models? > > I run 2 monitors under ubuntu. > What I havent seen in this thread is mention of the fact that you want a > video card with dual dvi. Most cards have 1 dvi and 1 analog. I find that I > get screen 'lining' when I use the dvi/analog combi. That is highly > annoying. The cheapest dual dvi card I could find was $65, then up to $120 > etc. This was at allneeds.com.au in Adelaide.
I have 3 ubuntu machines, all fanless nvidia, 1 dual vga (gigabyte agp) 1 dual dvi (8600) and 1 (8500) vga+dvi Except for minor hastles regarding the MASTER display (long solved) they are ALL perfect. The older agp machine dual(sic)-boots CentOS and SuSE without any problems. So I guess that it is your cards and/or your monitors causing your grief James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
