Triple-head setup advice sought

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Apr 6 06:46:41 PDT 2012


On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:32:49 -0400
Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >> can support more than two displays.  The only restriction is that only
> >> two non-displayport monitors are supported (all additional monitors
> >> must be displayport).  Depending on the asic, they support up to 4 or
> >> 6 independent monitors.
> >
> > This one has DVI, HDMI, VGA - and there are various other combinations
> > available. I assume that means there is a displayport convertor built in ?
> 
> No, that card can only drive two displays. 

It's driving three, right now with me typing on it and all showing
different output. I guess it has the convertor built in. I'll try and
find the box it came and check what the vendor info was.

Alan



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