--- Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I > figure it will > require the proprietary driver, and while that is > not optimal, I'm > willing to do it. I really want to have three > monitors set up. > > If so, how'd you do it? One architectural office I'm working with that is *very* Linux curious wanted to try Fedora on a four-headed system. The system has: - 1 VGA on-board graphics card (not sure the chipset, assuming its a standard Intel on-board device) connected to a ~20" Dell LCD monitor - 2 nVidia 1Gb Galaxy PCI-E 16 cards (pretty cheap) connected through their DVI outputs to two large, matching LG Flatrons - 1 *something else* pretty old, weak card also connected through a DVI out to a generic, small flatscreen leftover from someplace I installed Fedora 14 with just the VGA on-board video running first, then plugged the others in after install... and everything just worked on reboot. The only adjustment needed was to place the screens in relation to one another so that the layout made sense. They have heavy 2D requirements (CAD for blueprint designs), but not any real 3D needs, so the open source drivers worked just fine for them. Their fabrication techs *do* need 3D, though, so it would be necessary to get good, real 3D drivers for those systems. This is easy. "oooh, dual head" is not very "ooooh anymore." It's just about plugging things in as long as the hardware is fairly vanilla. One note: You will not get much easy mileage out of USB-to-VGA output switches. Those still suck to configure, even for a single screen. -------------------------------------- Get the new Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo! JAPAN http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ie8/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
