[clue-tech] Dual monitors with 2 video cards?

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On 4/6/07, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <xonker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But, it's entirely possible to get Linux to address two video cards.
> > Many, many years ago I had a Matrox G450 dual-head card and an ATI
> > video card set up so I could use a triple display. It should be easier
> > to set that up now than it was then.
>
> It should be automatic by now.  Linux video sucks, frankly.
>
> Every other OS out there can do this out of the box now, just by
> installing the card and MAYBE a driver.  In Linux we still fart around
> getting it working.
>
> Desktop Linux is falling behind, again... not that there were ever
> very many signs of hope of it ever being useful for anyone not willing
> to screw with it constantly.

Way to blame the wrong party there. Want to rail about problems with
video under Linux? Point the blame at ATI and Nvidia, not Linux.

Frankly, for a OS developed in large part by volunteers without access
to proper docs, I think it's doing pretty damn well.
-- 
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
Editorial Director - Linux.com
xonker at gmail.com
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