[olug] Multiple video cards and X11...

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 22 August 2008 20:51:40 Dan Linder wrote:
> My current card is a dual port eVGA 8600-GT (PCI Express x16), and I
> only have a plain PCI slot left.  I really like NVidia and I'm
> thinking about an eVGA GeForce 6200 card.  I know the potential speed
> difference between these two cards will be quite a bit, but I don't
> run much OpenGL stuff nor do I use the "desktop effects", 99% of the
> time I use plain 2D video.
>
> Anyone have any experience with driver compatibility with multiple
> cards?  If I did go with an ATI (AMD?) video card, does XOrg/X11 have
> any issues with a single desktop using all three screens?

No, but it sounds like you're using nVidia's proprietary stuff for dual head, 
not XOrg. That obviously won't expand to include a non-nVidia card. However, 
if you only need 2D, you could easily get by using the standard Linux/XOrg/DRI 
'nv' driver.