Quad head video card

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 08:51:04 PST 2005


On 12/19/05, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-12-19 at 14:23 +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > Does anybody have any experience with quad head PCI cards or two dual
> > head PCI cards or 4 single head PCI cards ? Any advice on what is a good
> > chipset for Xorg (in case we will make our own quadhead card) ?
>
> Some old quad S3 cards work fairly well. I've had 16 heads on a PC that
> way. The Xorg code and XFree 4.0 only support some versions of the cards
> however, the others need 3.x.
>
> Alan
>

Appian made some multi-chip permedia based cards that should work. 
Also, colorgraphics makes multi-chip savage4 cards that should work,
although, the savage video video overlay is pretty crappy.

Alex



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