Recommend 2 Video Cards for Fedora Core 2?

From: Google Mike (googlemike_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: 6 Oct 2004 07:45:19 -0700

My coworker in the office, a Linux web developer, needs two video
cards added to her PC so that she can independently put two monitors
on it and operate in Xinerama mode. She's currently got this working
on RH9 with these drivers, but we can't go higher than 800x600. We
plan to migrate her to Fedora Core 2 in the next couple days. Can you
recommend what video cards would work best under Fedora Core 2 for a
resolution higher than 800x600 and in 24 bit color?

The drivers under RH9 Linux that we're using now are:

Monitors - IBM 6332 E74
Video 1 - ATI Mach 64 VT (264VT)
Video 2 - NVidia RIVA TNT2

Appreciate it! We plan to make the purchase soon from CDW.com. Here's
a link:

http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/Results.aspx?key=pci+video+card&platform=all

P.S. I seem to recall that one of these we could get to go into 16
bit, 1024x768 color, but then the other video card wouldn't do the
same.

P.S.S. I don't trust these dual-head video cards with a cable that
goes to two separate monitors. I just haven't been able to get this to
work in RH9. However, I seem to have good success with two separate
video cards.

P.S.S.S. I have Xinerama working fantastic for me with two Dell P1130
monitors and one NVidia RIVA TNT2 M64 video card, and one ATI Radeon
VE QY. I get extremely high resolution and 24 bit color.

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