[Gllug] NVidia dualhead twinview

[Roberto D'Amico]

For what it's worth:

I've recently setup my TNT2 using the latest nVidia drivers (btw, thanks
Richard Pounder).
The latest drivers are 1.0-1541, http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

There is an entire section in the "Readme & Intsall Guide" about setting up
TwinView, 
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/1021/SUPP/README.txt

Browsing forums/reviews there is a general view that both the ATI Radeons
with HydraVision and GF2s with TwinView 
pale[1] in comparison to Matorx (G450/550) implmentation, DualHead[2][3].

Hope this helps,
Roberto

[1]: Both HyrdaVision & TwinView you are limited on the resoltions you can
use on second monitor. Where as, If I remember correctly, the DualHead is
not or is much less so.

[2]: Matrox G550 Linux driver page:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_09.cfm 

[3]: A Matrox G550 Review here:
http://www.2cpu.com/Hardware/G550/g550_1.html (On Windows :/) 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ab (Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:53)
> Subject: [Gllug] NVidia dualhead twinview
> 
> I am using Nvidia GForce2 and old matrox TNT card for 
> xinerama at the moment, but getting sick of slow performance 
> of NVidia - as acceleration is killed by xinerama.
> 
> Been thinking about the twinview thingy, and looking for 
> nvidia based cards with dualhead/twinview. Seems to be a 
> definite lack of cards, except for tv-out.
> 
> Any thoughts/ideas on cards/solutions ?
> 
> /Anthony/

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