Spec me a passive AGP gfx card that does dual displays in Linux

[MikeHunt79]

Right now I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 which is fine but only works with a single monitor.

I think I need an Nvidia card, which one will work well in this case?

 

[thegoonden]

All the NV cards I've tried have done dual screen fine in Linux.
Configuring X is a bit of an art though.

 

[thegoonden]

Should say that that was with one VGA/DVI output and the Svideo connected.

Also,to configure X, you want to define as little as possible. Metamodes and the like are fidgety to get working. I had terrible trouble, until I remembered how I config'd my first linux video card.......

#this option
#that option
#the other option.

Basically the more you ### out, ie, the less you specify, the more X will work out for itself, and X is THE smartest software I ever encountered.
Once you get it working in "do what you will" mode, you can get down to speccing res-pairs and refreshes and so on.

My brother is using both DVI outs on an 8800GTS to drive 2 monitors in Gentoo, with only one issue....he's doing a strecthed desktop, and the two screens are different res. Think he did work round it in the end.

;
xorg.conf can probably be posted in here if you need. I have my old one somewhere two, which was two identical indepentent desktops....one for using, and the other as nothing but a background for the TV until it was playing something. Loved it that way as it was like manual video mirroring.....you just specified DISPLAY=:0 to force something to the TV and DISPLAY=:1 for the monitor

 

[MikeHunt79]

Thanks, sounds like I'm in for some fun...

I'll keep an eye out of one of nVidias 5xxx or 6xxx series, hopefully I'll find something passive.

 

[thegoonden]

I was running an mx440 until last year :lol:
Pretty sure there are passive 72nn's around. Plenty of 5's and 6's to choose from.

 

[MikeHunt79]

Oh I forgot about the 7 series, they were AGP also, I'll keep an eye out for those also, cheers.