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>> This one's for Mike :-)
Tue, Oct 4th 8:12pm 2005: Tech Toys
It's survival of the fittest at IVT: there's a running joke that if you leave your computer unattended you'll probably come back to find it's been stripped for parts! So last week with people away the sight of spare LCDs just sitting there became too much, and combined with having a couple of spare ports on my second video card I knew it just had to be done.
So, pentuple-head it was.
The setup uses a dual-head Nvidia AGP card running the binary drivers so I can use the native TwinHead feature for the center and inner-right monitors, and a triple-head Radeon 7000 PCI card for the left, inner-left and right monitors.
Unfortunately the Radeon drivers don't support triple-head under Linux (works fine under Windows - bah) so the third output ends up just mirroring the second. That means the two outermost monitors are actually showing the same image, which sucks.
But it still looked pretty cool, and I even gave the extra monitors back afterwards so I've reverted to "just" a triple-head system now.
It's survival of the fittest at IVT: there's a running joke that if you leave your computer unattended you'll probably come back to find it's been stripped for parts! So last week with people away the sight of spare LCDs just sitting there became too much, and combined with having a couple of spare ports on my second video card I knew it just had to be done.
So, pentuple-head it was.
The setup uses a dual-head Nvidia AGP card running the binary drivers so I can use the native TwinHead feature for the center and inner-right monitors, and a triple-head Radeon 7000 PCI card for the left, inner-left and right monitors.
Unfortunately the Radeon drivers don't support triple-head under Linux (works fine under Windows - bah) so the third output ends up just mirroring the second. That means the two outermost monitors are actually showing the same image, which sucks.
But it still looked pretty cool, and I even gave the extra monitors back afterwards so I've reverted to "just" a triple-head system now.
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