AGP + PCI Nvidia card

[Skin]

Hello,

Does anyone here have experience using a triplehead setup. On my next computer I would like to make a triplehead setup using 1 Nvidia agp card with dvi+analog and one pci Nvidia card.

Is this possible? Won't the 2 drivers conflict? Will I be able to get the three monitors working?

Skin

ps. It will be 1 * 19" tft with dvi + 2 * 15" tft analog

[ricercar]

It is simple to use NVIDIA PCI and AGP cards at the same time for multi-display configurations; I've done it often. Just plug them in and install drivers.

A dual-head PCI card even works with a dual-head AGP card to drive four displays simultaneously. I've even plugged in three dual-head PCI cards and a dual-head AGP card to drive eight displays! Invariably they all play nicely together.

I've tested three different NVIDIA PCI cards with a dozen NVIDIA AGP cards--TNT2 through GF FX 5800U--on drivers 30.82 through 43.45 with no conflicts.* However, I found three or more displays is too much real estate for me to keep track of. My four displays usually live as two dual-headed machines.

*VIVO won't work with nView or TwinView. You have to disable all displays except for one on your VIVO card.

EDIT: oops. all my experience is with WinBlows. I didn't notice this is a Linux forum post. FYI dual displays can be done with Linux, but it's non-trivial from everything I've read.

[Andy Mecham]

It uses the same driver, so there's no conflict. The only difficult part is getting your XF86Config file tweaked correctly, but you can look at the example file provided to get an idea of what to do.

--andy

[keneda]

andy, i use triple head

1 agp ti4200
1 pci ge4 mx 440

ti4200 in twinview mode
ge4 in twinview mode (clone for tv)
xinerama is on

all is ok 3840x1024

i can move windows over 3 screens

but for 3d (glxgears, quake3) on the third screen, the windows is just black

for 2d apps (ex: kmatrix) no pb

is it overlay pb or something else

(it will be great to play quake3 on my 3 tft 17'')

i can post my XF86Config and log file if needed !!

thx for reply

[Andy Mecham]

From the README:


o OpenGL + Xinerama
Currently, OpenGL will not display to anything other than the
first head in a Xinerama environment.

--andy

[keneda]

will it work under windows ?

[pingu]

Originally posted by keneda
andy, i use triple head

1 agp ti4200
1 pci ge4 mx 440

ti4200 in twinview mode
ge4 in twinview mode (clone for tv)
xinerama is on

all is ok 3840x1024

i can move windows over 3 screens

but for 3d (glxgears, quake3) on the third screen, the windows is just black

for 2d apps (ex: kmatrix) no pb

is it overlay pb or something else

(it will be great to play quake3 on my 3 tft 17'')

i can post my XF86Config and log file if needed !!

thx for reply

hey m8 id appreciate it if you could send me the log for the XF86Config file.

please could you email me @ azh2003 (AT) msn.com

thanking you!