Re: Dual monitor possible?

Sorry, didn't have to come back to my computer before. Thank you for the
explanation, I now understand what you were speaking about. As for the slots
there is only one pink, the others are silver but for the usb (not sure of
the name neither but can't remember it right now) that will lead to the
printer, scanner...
After you have the sound card and the video card that I added that's all I
see inside in the back of the computer.
Right now I just moved my son's computer like that I can use his screen to
show me what I need, but it apparently has some trojans and other troubles
so I may have to change the hard drive and install Ubuntu if I can't solve
all the problems that it is making. It decided to make appear whatever it
wants whenever it wants, hard to read a screen this way!
Anyway thank you for your help, I'll tell you when I will be able to buy the
card and let you know if I am able to install it by myself
Thank you
Megan

On 10/6/07, Liam Proven <lproven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 06/10/2007, Ashley Benton <meggalen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would say the slot is long and pink, so apparently the manufacturer
changed the color for fun. The computer is about from 2003 so I wouldn't
say
ISA and my BIOS settings were on PCI before I changed them to AGP so I
would
guess it is a PCI (never went in the BIOS settings before I installed
Ubuntu
about 2 months ago). I also went to check in the BIOS and the settings
of
the nvidia card last night but didn't see anything that would help.
Maybe it
is there but I don't see it, so I will try again tonight or tomorrow

Well, we know you can switch your BIOS between onboard and PCI/AGP,
yes? Does the machine have multiple slots? If so, then chances are,
it's AGP+PCI. If most of the slots are white and one isn't, that'll be
the AGP one.

As from the Matrox Parphelia driver I'm missing something and don't
understand.

I was answering a question from someone else, who wanted /triple/ head.

Yet I I saw the option of the Nvidia 6800 GT with dual output
maybe interesting for later.

Yes indeed!

I also have a stupid question from what I read
you usually don't like ATI and prefer Nvidia because of the driver
problems
if I understood and I saw some reference for ATI card, why? Isn't it
easier
to use Nvidia and don't they have equivalent product?

As far as I know, nVidia do not offer any plain-old PCI graphics cards
any more. They stopped many many years ago. But ATI /do./ The Radeon
9200 and 7000 were available in PCI form many years after almost
everyone else gave up. So if someone wants /three/ screens on a
pre-PCIe computer, the options are:
[1] Matrox Parhelia - not good with Linux
[2] AGP 2-head card + PCI card

If you're going for option 2, then it's probably easier to have all
the cards from the same manufacturer, so they work with the same
driver. Since the only remotely recent PCI graphics cards are ATI,
then that means ATI main AGP graphics, too.

Otherwise, yes, I normally do recommend nVidia nowadays.

This may change soon. nVidia's Linux drivers are their own, closed,
proprietary code. This is a Bad Thing in Linux terms, but it was the
only choice.

But ATI - now owned by Intel rival processor company AMD - recently
released all the info for their rival cards. (AMD are getting badly
beaten up by Intel in processors and badly beaten up by nVidia in
graphics. They are flailing around for competitive advantage. This
could be a shrewd move.)

So, soon, there will be open, Free ATI drivers that can do all the
cool stuff nVidia's closed, proprietary ones can. When that happens,
suddenly, for Linux, everyone will start recommending and using ATI
graphics instead.

This is not a big market for graphics - at least, not yet - but on the
other hands, the sort of people running Linux are knowledgeable
geeks, the sorts who end up running big technology companies or
running technology for big companies.

So long-term, getting these guys to know and love your product and
rate it over the competition is a Good Thing.

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