From freedesktop-xorg  Sat May 27 23:48:26 2006
From: Russell Shaw <rjshaw () netspace ! net ! au>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 23:48:26 +0000
To: freedesktop-xorg
Subject: Re: PCI-E card with two dvi outputs with FOSS drivers
Message-Id: <4478E54A.7080504 () netspace ! net ! au>
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Ben Skeggs wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 27.05.2006, 14:12 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot:
> 
>>If I buy a cheap GForce 5200 or Radeon 92?0 card, will xorg be able to
>>do a clone to this card ? (now someone will tell me the TMDSes on these
>>things are unsupported)

Don't know about clone, but i'm using a Radeon 9200 SE in 2-head xinerama
mode (display 0). No acceleration tho. I originally tried nvidia, but the
FOSS drivers are crap and wouldn't do dual-head. The FOSS drivers for ati
are much better. I'll go OpenGraphics when they're released. Even if the
hardware is less capable than a proprietory asic, the card will still run
much faster than the others when just using FOSS drivers.

> Any card supported by the radeon driver should work nicely (even that
> X700 you have, with the exception of 3D/XRENDER acceleration).
> 
> No Nvidia card has support for multiple displays in the open-source
> drivers, not even oldish cards live the 5200.
> 
> 
>>Though it will eat one pci slot, and I don't really have any available.
>>Need to find which PCI daughterboard to kill