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Sure. That would be great! We are ordering a new AGP 8x motherboard
with the Matrox P750 triplehead card. I don't know about support for
XFree86 on the P750, I'l have to check it out. I am hoping that since
it's AGP 8x and the mobo is 8x I might get some more performance out of
it (more VIC windows). How do you handle things like DPPT? Just use VNC
for linux?<br>
<br>
-Doug B<br>
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Stephen Bosch wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid3F5CAFD0.6080807@netera.ca">Douglas
Baggett wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Do people on the list have opinions on LINUX
vs Windows as a Display
<br>
system? When AG 1.x came out, linux did not really have that good
<br>
multi-monitor support. Now that XFree86 has come a ways, I was
wondering
<br>
what people's experience has been with using LINUX as a Display system?
<br>
I am bit tired of fighting Windows monitor and device drivers for
<br>
multi-monitor displays (especially when the displays have different
<br>
resolutions). It seems Windows has a mind of it's own often changing
<br>
screen placement/order without the user doing anything (mainly in
<br>
between boots). Other issues include icons/task-bar migrating to
<br>
different screens when I don't want them to! I'm thinking one advantage
<br>
of LINUX would be having a set in stone config for XFree86 so that
<br>
NOTHING changes.
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</blockquote>
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I would no longer hesitate to suggest using Linux for display systems.
The multi-head support is much improved, and even if the XFree86
documentation remains nebulous the XF86Config parameters are much, much
simpler.
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I'm using a Matrox Parhelia 128 triple-head card. It works like a hot
damn. The drivers are supposed to be for Redhat, but I've extracted
them and used them successfully in Slackware. If you need OpenGL
support Matrox can provide you with beta 3d drivers (those work too).
<br>
<br>
I haven't had any of the problems you describe in Linux, although there
is a bug in the way the Matrox drivers handle the framebuffer (logging
out of X caused the screen to blank. Not very convenient :) ) The
workaround is simple, though -- just don't use the framebuffer on boot.
That's mostly eye-candy anyway.
<br>
<br>
If you need any help setting up multi-head support in Linux, let me
know.
<br>
<br>
-Stephen-
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