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

Fri May 5 19:17:07 UTC 2006
Andrew Cotter <andrew.cotter at somersetcapital.com>

If you are looking to pick up a Matrox card, check out this site.  They have odds and ends of stuff for sale and occasionally I see something that I pick up.  Just so happens the have the Matrox G450 right now.

16MB Matrox G450 (Dual Monitor) 4x AGP Video Card --1+ $ 7.49

http://www.txmicro.com


Andrew



> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
> Behalf Of Jure Pecar
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Anybody ever done 6 monitors on one server before?
> :)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 04 May 2006 15:59:45 -0500
> "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at 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 ... :)~
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jure Pečar
> http://jure.pecar.org
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