[ale] budget dual-head advice?

[chip]

The closed source driver works great on Ubuntu 10 and 11, was
clickety-click-click simple to setup.

--chip

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just slapped CEntOS 6 on a box with some agp radeon card having dvi and
> vga connectors. Dual display just worked. The only thing I had to do was
> tell it which screen was on the left.
> Yes. Nvidia must be confugured using the nvidia display manager tool
> shipping with the closed source driver.
> The neuvou [sic] driver was too unstable the last time I tried it in 2009.
> It's should be much better now in current Ubuntu and Fedora.
>
> On Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM, "Björn Gustafsson" <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:
>> My single-display system at home makes me sad when I have to work from my
>> house, so I'm looking to create a dual-display setup on my Ubuntu box.
>> Switching between virtual displays just isn't good enough for me. I'm just
>> looking for more screen real estate, not gaming or other high frame-rate
>> applications, so performance isn't a big issue as long as I get the
>> maximum
>> resolution for my buck.
>>
>> I've been pricing monitors that can handle 1920x1080, but haven't done the
>> math yet to see how much video memory that requires.
>>
>> Pricewatch pointed me at two budget-minded dual-head DVI cards, and I was
>> wondering if anyone had pointers on which might be preferable. At work I
>> have an ATI Radeon dual-head setup on Ubuntu so I'm confident that works.
>> I've been reading that nVidia-based dual display configurations are more
>> of
>> a hassle to set up, so that may drive me in the other direction.
>>
>>
>> http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html
>>
>> http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Björn
>
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