On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:38 +0900, Msquared wrote: > Hi, guys! > > I'm looking for a video card that supports two 1920x1200 monitors using > open-source drivers under Xen on Fedora 8. > > I currently have an nVidia 8500GT, but I'm having issues with dual-screen > under the open-source drivers, and the proprietary drivers don't support > Xen. > > I have not yet purchased the 1920x1200 screens, as I wanted to make sure > that my card supported them first. Since I'm having so many problems with > the nVidia, I'm looking for an alternative card. The monitors I will most > likely purchase are 2 Samsung 245B. > > Regards, Msquared... > You're hitting one of my biggest problems. I want dual head. (24" + 22" DELLs) I want 3D. And I want Xen. But sadly enough nVidia doesn't official support Xen. (You can try to use their proprietary driver never the less [1]... but YMMV) In the end, I kept the nVidia drivers (for my 6800) and the 3D (proprietary drivers) but replaced Xen with VMWare server. As for your question, -for now- if you're looking for good OSS drivers with solid dual-head and Xen support, you should be aiming at ATI/AMD r300 based cards (ATI 9xxx?). In a couple of months the new open ATI/AMD RadeonHD should be mature enough for production - giving you the magic bullet of dual-head, xen and decent 3D. - Gilboa [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=95483&highlight=xen
