All Nvidia cards (and most ati cards) have dual ramdacs and can run
dual headed with the nvidia xorg driver. I'm running at work with a
MX-440 card and at home with a Quattro 920 card and it's mighty cool.<br>
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Once you have the card and driver installed, you can either use
'twinview' to create one large screen on across 2 monitors or 2
separate screen sections on 2 monitors- The advantage to using 2 screen
sections is that you can have different resolutions on each monitor.<br>
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The driver documentation outlines the xorg.conf changes for either method.<br>
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As far as using 2 separate video cards, I don't think it'll work- The bios on the cards will conflict with each other.<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Richardson</b> <<a href="mailto:mtr3@buffalo.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mtr3@buffalo.edu
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Eric Benoit wrote:<br>> This is prolly a simple one.<br>><br>> Does anyone know if I can install two video cards and then attach two<br>> monitors and use sometime of software to create one large desktop?<br>
> ...for linux
<br><br>I haven't tried this, so YMMV.<br><br>A quick google search for "dual monitor +xorg.conf" came up with this<br>sample config which seems to be sane:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.osuosl.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7041" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://wiki.osuosl.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7041</a><br><br>the Xinerama extension will give you the extended virtual desktop:<br>otherwise, the two monitors will be seperate displays...<br><br>--<br>Michael Richardson
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