Dual Monitor Setups

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 17:59:12 PST 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, GMAIL - James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>> I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-52H m/b with built in ATI graphics that will
>> do dual monitors, one VGA, one DVI. I use Ubuntu for that, it required the
>> proprietary ATI drivers, and I had to fiddle with the setup, but it worked.
>
> So I would really need to get a DVI cable and then it would work.
>
> What has been your experience with the ATI graphics?

ATI for linux has improved a little bit, but it still sucks in
comparison to nVidia that just works everytime.

Maybe you should just cough up the extra bucks for an add-on video
card (nVidia preferralbly) and worry less aobut the built-in video.



-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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