Quad head video card

Brad Best bbest at archelon-de.com
Mon Dec 19 22:46:47 PST 2005


I've had success with radeon cards, have multiple setups with 5 dualhead 
cards and Xinerama
(using a 9 screen ___big___ window), the only problem I've had is X 
using a good bit of CPU,
and some apps seeming to need more memory, but the setup definitely 
works fine.
I'm using fanless radeon 7000 64mb PCI cards with a DVI and a VGA port 
(not messed with the
TV-out, however)..

brad best

Erwin Rol wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>For a client I am looking for a quad head video card. The card should be
>PCI and without a fan. The card should have the ability to do video
>playback on all heads with a minimum CPU load in a 4 head Xinerama
>setup. 3D performance is not important at all, and if DRI/OpenGL doesn't
>work or only works in software doesn't matter. 
>
>Since this all is for a projects with a long (10 years and more)
>lifetime it is important that the drivers are pure open source so that
>we aren't depending on the manufacturer to give use a driver for Xorg
>8.0 or Linux 3.0. 
>
>Does anybody have any experience with quad head PCI cards or two dual
>head PCI cards or 4 single head PCI cards ? Any advice on what is a good
>chipset for Xorg (in case we will make our own quadhead card) ?
>
>TIA,
>
>Erwin Rol
>
>
>
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