Video card recommendation(s) for multi-head configuration

[George Hartzell]

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'm driving a pair of 18" 1280x1024 lcd's (NEC Multisync LCD 1850x)
via their DVI connectors w/ a Matrox MGA-G550 AGP card w/ the funky
single high-density connector.

Dual-headed DVI functionality requires you to use the binary mga_hal
blob, and the port doesn't work with the Xorg 6.9.

I had to fart around a bit to make it work, but did eventually put
together a recipe, which is posted at 

  http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewforum.php?f=64

I've also hooked up the same monitors to a Matrox P-650 but didn't
explore it very much.  It might be interesting because it has a higher
maximum pixel count.

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.

g.