[SGVLUG] Dual video cards -- possible/supported?

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 6/29/06, juanslayton at dialup4less.com <juanslayton at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> juanslayton at dialup4less.com wrote ..
>   A couple more thoughts.  In my xinerama installation there actually are two drivers (check it out in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, because I have two very different video cards.  One is an AGP card, the other not.  It seemed to work as advertised on Fedora Core 4 and Slackware 10, until the Fedora system crashed after several days.  I suppose a machine with two identical video cards that was designed for those applications would (hopefully) be more reliable.

The only thing you gain with identical cards is hardware accelerated
3d, if the you have the correct drivers(NVidia is the only drivers
that support that). Otherwise X-windows is just faking it by rendering
the whole display on both cards and only showing the correct onscreen
part on each display.