Video card recommendation(s) for multi-head configuration

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 22:40:55 -0500
"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:05:10PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
> > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> >  > 
> >  > I'd like to hook up more then one monitor to my desktop, work
> >  > on one, monitor on the other, sort of thing ... I'd *love* to
> >  > hook up three when finished, but not sure how easy/reasonable
> >  > that is to do ...
> >  > 
> >  > I'm guessing someone here has experience with multi-head
> >  > configurations, so the questions are along the lines of max #
> >  > of monitors, video cards that does this well, etc ...
> > 
> > I spent a couple of hours wrestling w/ an nvidia based card on
> > Fedora core 4 last weekend and eventually got Xinerama working
> > with the binary nvidia driver, but never made it work w/ nv
> > driver.
> 
> I'd recommend any "modern" nVidia card (that is, later than GeForce
> FX). I have dual-head (and sometimes 3-4 head) working on almost
> every box I manage now.  I've had good luck with both the nv and
> nvidia drivers in dual-head mode.  Everything works well out of the
> box.  At work, some of us have a 1920x1200 and a 1600x1200 running
> in 32-bit color.  I've run up to 4 monitors with two cards pretty
> successfully with Xinerama.  I won't touch a non-nVidia card
> anymore.  That goes for windoze too..

How is the speed when using Xinerama? Last I tried it was back on a
old fx5200 using nVidia's drivers and it was dead slow. That was like
year or so ago.