Hello Simon,
NVIDIA 9600GT seems to be not very expensive and enough powerfull for
my application (2 DVI outputs). However, the port is PCI-express and
not PCI-e (better for recent hardware).
Thanx to share this informations.
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Jack
Le 17 juil. 08 à 09:20, Simon Wise a écrit :
On 13 Jul 2008, at 7:28 AM, Jack wrote:
I would like to use one PC with ubuntu and 2 graphic cards with 2 outputs (total : 4 video outputs). I usually use a Mac. Can you give me a good harware configuation using Pd and GEM equivalent to a MacPro configuration (2 intel Quad-core 2,8 GHz and 2 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT) ? Not too expensive please !
I did just that a couple of weeks ago -
I used 2x quite different NVIDIA cards - an older NVIDIA 6800 card
and a cheaper but newer Gigabyte card with an NVIDIA 9600GT chip
[less than $200 here in Australia], both PCI-E. The motherboard has
an NVIDIA chipset. Both work fine together, the NVIDIA driver
recognises them both easily.I could put each in Twinview mode then use 2 gemwindows [a while
back I successfully tried the multi-window version of Gem, but
haven't done so recently], but instead I set up xorg to give 4
separate displays for different Gem windows (4 instances of Pd, one
running on each of the 4 displays). I may buy another of the 9600
cards and see if I can get a single large gemwindow for all 4
projectors using the SLI link - but I haven't done that yet.I run Debian (the Sidux distribution with a 2.6.25 kernel. The
processor is an oldish dual core AMD.simon