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On 02/10/12 19:46, Martin Gautier wrote: > I guess my point is, after this rant (sorry about that), has anyone > got any sort of reliable combination of good cards, monitors, drivers, > distributions that actually works, at a decent clip, with 3D, > twin-headed setups and continue to work when the drivers are upgraded? I don't deal with multi-monitor linux setups much anymore (any clients with multi-monitor setups are usually either graphics/design people with Macs or finance or programmer types on Windows) although for a very long time before I reluctantly joined the modern world and bought a DFP, I ran 3 x 21" Sun CRTs on a single workstation. Windows handled that giant display setup effortlessly and I distinctly remember it was absolute *hell* to get it working for longer than a few minutes under Linux. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many days if not weeks I spent hacking about on the X setup, drivers, etc. >From personal experience, two way setups are much easier to control and definitely doable under Linux. Older type Nvidia cards I have personally used and know full well to be capable of what you want are the 7800GT, 9600GT and 8800 (any). I have also used AMD 6850/6870s successfully for this. All of these are older cards now and probably pretty cheap on Ebay - the 7800GT is so old you could probably get one for free. The monitor(s) really don't matter, as long as it's not got something unexpectedly weird like a BNC connector or a massive 30" panel that requires DVI-D or something proprietary. Any Linux distro should do, just use whatever you're happiest with. Ubuntu sucks though and they get everything wrong these days so I'd steer clear of that - Mint, Suse, Fedora, Arch: all should be fine. In all cases, I was using the standard drivers from my distributions (historically usually Redhat EL/CentOS, Fedora or Debian) and sometimes updated versions in 3rd party repos if I wanted the latest and greatest for testing. I can't stress enough that YMMV, but these are the combinations I have personally used myself and they all fit your conditions. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq