From freedesktop-xorg  Sat May 27 15:31:04 2006
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra () chello ! nl>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:31:04 +0000
To: freedesktop-xorg
Subject: Re: PCI-E card with two dvi outputs with FOSS drivers
Message-Id: <1148743864.3734.9.camel () lappy>
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On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 27 mai 2006 à 14:26 +0200, Erwin Rol a écrit :
> 
> > Hello ATI, nVidea do FOSS developers really first have to buy a PCI(e)
> > bus analyzer before there will be any usable drivers for your cards that
> > I (and others) pay you money for ? 
> 
> So, to sum up. On a PCIE desktop mobo if one wants two DVI outputs one
> can use :
> 
> 1. a two-DVI PCIE GForce 7600 with closed drivers
> 2. a two-DVI PCIE GForce 7600 with FOSS drivers
>    WON'T WORK
> 3. a two-DVI PCIE ATI card with closed drivers
>    NOT CONFIRMED and I'm not interested
> 4. a two-DVI PCIE ATI card with FOSS drivers
>    will work on FireXX cards however they are very expensive
>    WON'T WORK on anything > X850 no FOSS drivers
>    WON'T WORK on anything <= X850 no support for external TMDSes
> 5. a SLI mobo and two PCIE cards ??? (I don't have a SLI mobo)
> 6. a PCIE card + a PCI card ?????
>    can anyone confirm ?
>    will eat another PCI slot and the PSU will suffer
>    what chipset/drivers can be mixed ?
>    is DVI supported by FOSS drivers on ATI 92?0 PCI cards ?
>  
6. should work for any PCI/AGP/PCIe card combination; both xinerama and
old style multi-head. Although I haven't tested with PCIe for lack of
having it, I've ran pretty much all other configurations with a scala of
cards: Matrox G400 (agp), Matrox Millenium II PCI, Radeon 7500 PCI/AGP,
Radeon 9200 AGP, NVidiot something AGP, i815 AGP.

As for your wish to drive 2 DVI ports, same here. I was hoping:
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=2&l2=8&l3=12&model=618&modelmenu=1
would work. But alas, no external TDMS support :-(

If intel would add a second DVI output to their i965 graphics chip (and
mobo makers would actually build a board with it) I might even buy intel
again.

Peter