Dual Monitor Setups

[Vu Pham]

On 11/17/2009 07:59 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.
>

I am using 2-head NVIDIA cards on all my desktops for dual monitors and 
I do not have any problems. I used to have to download the Linux drivers 
from nvidia web site. Then whenever I updated the kernel I had to 
recompile the driver again. I think since release 11, Fedora has the 
nvidia drivers so I just use the ones from Fedora. Since then I do not 
have to recompile the driver after updating the kernels.

Vu