[olug] Multiple video cards and X11...

[Jay Swackhamer]

Take a look at xrandr, you can now have a simple xorg.conf and  
add/remove displays on the fly. Mainly useful with laptops with  
external vga connections, but greatly simplifies configuration.

The safe line, would be to have all nVidia cards of the same  
generation. Same driver for all. You should have no issues if they  
have the same driver.

The performance difference in the cards you mentioned would only apply  
to 3-d and the color-depth.

I've ran 7+monitors off of different cards in one machine.

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Quoting Dan Linder <dan at linder.org>:

> I'm entertaining the thought of adding a second video card to my
> system and start using three monitors.
>
> 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?
>
> (I know that most of this stuff is pretty cut-and-dried anymore, but
> my last experience with multiple video cards in X11 was about 9 years
> ago -- hence the reason I've only gone with dual-port video cards if
> possible.)
>
> Dan
>
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