Re: [CentOS] Anybody ever done 6 monitors on one server before? :)

On Thu, 04 May 2006 15:59:45 -0500 "Benjamin J. Weiss" benjamin@birdvet.org wrote:

I know that with the right video card(s) you can have two monitors, but has anybody had 6?

I did 5 with matrox cards (1x g450 + 4x millenium). Did both X and fb - it's kinda interesting to see 5 different divx playing off the same machine :)

Matrox cards are designed exatcly for the kind of thing you're looking for. Just one word of warning - get older models, like g400/450/550 (they're dirt cheap from ebay), not the newer ones (parhelia & co), since the drivers for the newer ones are nonexistant or next to useless.

It would be a nice experiment to get four or five 4-head pci models and stuff them into one box ... :)~