Hi

|          what's currently a good card for multi-headed X11 work?

I messed around with this for some time. Here are a few points that I
mostly learnt the hard way:

Try to avoid Nvidia cards as the 'nv' driver has some serious isues with
dual-heads (at least with my GeForce 4).  The native XFree86 ATI drivers
are *much* better.

Also if you want to run at any decent resolution (on both screens), go for
an AGP card and get at least a 32Meg card.

If you go for multiple cards, it might be an idea to wait for XFree86 4.4.
It has *much* better initialization of slave cards.

Best Regards,
Patrick Mackey

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Konrad Neuwirth wrote:

|       Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:57:56 +0100
|       From: Konrad Neuwirth <konrad@mailathome.or.at>
|       To: port-i386@netbsd.org
|       Subject: Hardware recommend. dual-headed card?
|
|       Hello everyone,
|
|          what's currently a good card for multi-headed X11 work?  It's not
|       necessary that it do any fancy 3D stuff (and I'd rather have lower
|       performance if it means no additional fan in my box), I just prefer
|       painless configuration and NetBSD integration.
|
|       Thanks,
|        Konrad
|