-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm buying myself a Sun E4500 for Christmas, and I'm going to be using it for my new workstation. It'll come with 6 CPU boards with 2x 400 MHz UltraSPARC and 2 GB of memory each, and I'm going to put PCI I/O boards in the remaining two gigaplane slots and upgrade the CPU boards to 4 GB memory each, so I'll end up with 12x 400 MHz UltraSPARC processors, 24 GB memory, and 4 PCI slots. Each PCI slot is 64-bit/66 MHz and on its own independent bus. I'm going to be using this machine as a workstation, and I'd like to do a 4-head setup, and I want two of the PCI slots free to put Firewire/USB and SAS in. So, I need to find a PCI graphics board with 2 display outputs, preferably 2 DVI outputs. Looks like the R9200 with 256 MB of memory is about the fastest thing I can plausibly expect to find in this configuration and have good support from open drivers, but I keep finding things like dual DVI cards with 128 MB, or DVI+VGA cards with 256 MB, almost but not quite what I want. Does anyone know something with a PCI bus, dual DVI outputs and 256 MB? Something that knows about 64-bit/66 MHz PCI would be nice, but that might be a bit too much to hope for. Can anyone help out a girl with exotic taste in hardware here? - -- Andrea Shepard | andrea+usenet@persephoneslair.org http://charon.persephoneslair.org/~andrea/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXioCH7kx5iqdI+kRAlaUAKDFKtuVdH+uibskhh1sLCHDwXRaDwCggxMC NJttVmvNfyP2NKWRpt46H50= =0Zr7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <fjoue3$br5$1@serv1.iunet.it>, sre <fake@fakeaddress.com> wrote: > Il Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:11:14 +0000, Andrea Shepard ha scritto: > >> Does anyone know something >> with a PCI bus, dual DVI outputs and 256 MB? > > > For professional use I'd suggest Matrox cards, have a look here: > > http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/products/home.php > > But, first of all, I'd stay away from ATI/AMD cards... > Their linux drivers are ugly. Hmm. Those Matrox cards look nice, but it looks like the G-series can only drive digital displays up to 1280x1024. The P-series can do 1920x1200, but it looks like driver support for those in X.org is iffy at best. I was really hoping to be able to pull off a quad-head 1920x1200 setup. - -- Andrea Shepard | andrea+usenet@persephoneslair.org http://charon.persephoneslair.org/~andrea/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYFpeH7kx5iqdI+kRAgVtAKCqN4abYb7REK04ebORUcVJ81ltLACg2VKE LeDeJ1qaFlm6H64V381to9M= =GqIe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

sre <fake@fakeaddress.com> wrote: > But, first of all, I'd stay away from ATI/AMD cards... > Their linux drivers are ugly. But ... open source. I use Radeon 9200 here for 3d games. Mark. -- Mark Hobley 393 Quinton Road West QUINTON Birmingham B32 1QE Email: markhobley at hotpop dot donottypethisbit com http://markhobley.yi.org/