Has anyone ever gotten a tri or quad display going on Linux? I currently have a dual display going on openSuSE 11.0 with two Dell UltraSharp 24"'s and a Nvidia 8800GTS card. I'm thinking about adding one or two more monitors, along with another video card to support them. Before I do this, I want to find out if this has been done on Linux before.
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Sure, I've haven't tried myself but I'm certain it's easy enough. You may have to edit your xorg.conf because YaST can't handle more than two monitors. At least I've never found a place to set it.
All devices looked ready to go when viewed with [blue]lspci[/blue], [blue]hwinfo --vbe[/blue] & [blue]dmesg[/blue] while testing the card DVI & VGA outputs.
All devices looked ready to go when viewed with [blue]lspci[/blue], [blue]hwinfo --vbe[/blue] & [blue]dmesg[/blue] while testing the card DVI & VGA outputs.
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I don't think there is anything easy about this. Sure, lspci and other utils will show the hardware installed, but getting them to play nicely with one another is another story. I already know that you can't use your PCI video card along with your built in video on the motherboard. You need two PCI cards with dual DVI connectors on each. I also wonder if the cards need to be identical for it to work properly, I doubt it but its a possibility. I have two computers here with dual displays so I can start swapping hardware right now to test, but before I do so I'd like to hear of someone else getting this working so I dont' waste my time.
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I have run two separate video cards with dual ports in one box. I do know that works. However, I never tried hooking up more than two displays.
Another option is to get a quad-head video card (I think nVidia makes one) and use it. I've seen reports that running the nvidia binary driver on a quad-head card does indeed work, running each pair of DVI ports in TwinView mode.
Other than that, I haven't tried it myself...
Another option is to get a quad-head video card (I think nVidia makes one) and use it. I've seen reports that running the nvidia binary driver on a quad-head card does indeed work, running each pair of DVI ports in TwinView mode.
Other than that, I haven't tried it myself...
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