Hi all,
Hopefully this post isnt too much of a mess, but I can only work from my phone until I get my DSL here, didn't have any luck with ural, and my RT2500USB.
Anyhow, Im hoping to set up a system with a 15 inch LCD, and my older 61 inch HDTV projection tv. What I would like to accomplish is two desktops, one showing a work desktop on the 15 incher, and either display DVD's or Justin.tv flash content on the big screen.
Im looking at 2 cards, a Quadro FX1100, or a GeForce 6600GT, the 1100 would be dual DVI, and the 6600GT will probably end up DVI, and Svideo.
I was just wondering if any of you might be able to give me a little insight on which card would be the best to go with, as far as ease, and quality. The stuff on Justin.tv is encoded h264...if that matters.
I have read lockup issues with the 6600GT, and also found an old post where someone mentioned using Twinview, over Xinerama, cause at the time Xinerama only suported OpenGl on one monitor, but that was from 2005. Not sure if either card runs better than the other or not, with FreBSD.
Also if anyone happens to know, which would be the best way to go to the tv as far as quality of picture, DVI with an adapter to either component, or Svideo, I thought about running it to an older VCR, that way I could just run a stretch of coax to the tv...would be cheaper.
I have an old Nvidia MX2 in there now, and when I had hooked it up in the past with Svideo, it didn't look so good, plus that card won't even run the Gl screensavers decently, wasn't sure if a better card would help the picture.
If anyone has any advice, or anything of that nature, I would appreciate it. I realize some of the questions may be better dealt with on an A/V forum, but I don't like to join places, that I don't plan on hanging around.
Also sorry if this question should have been placed elsewhere on the forum, but I didn't know if it quite fit into the multimedia section, and I didn't think it belonged in Xorg.
Thanks, and hopefuly these questions arent to retarded. I keep finding info, but most of its dated years back...we'll except for the info on this forum.
Hopefully this post isnt too much of a mess, but I can only work from my phone until I get my DSL here, didn't have any luck with ural, and my RT2500USB.
Anyhow, Im hoping to set up a system with a 15 inch LCD, and my older 61 inch HDTV projection tv. What I would like to accomplish is two desktops, one showing a work desktop on the 15 incher, and either display DVD's or Justin.tv flash content on the big screen.
Im looking at 2 cards, a Quadro FX1100, or a GeForce 6600GT, the 1100 would be dual DVI, and the 6600GT will probably end up DVI, and Svideo.
I was just wondering if any of you might be able to give me a little insight on which card would be the best to go with, as far as ease, and quality. The stuff on Justin.tv is encoded h264...if that matters.
I have read lockup issues with the 6600GT, and also found an old post where someone mentioned using Twinview, over Xinerama, cause at the time Xinerama only suported OpenGl on one monitor, but that was from 2005. Not sure if either card runs better than the other or not, with FreBSD.
Also if anyone happens to know, which would be the best way to go to the tv as far as quality of picture, DVI with an adapter to either component, or Svideo, I thought about running it to an older VCR, that way I could just run a stretch of coax to the tv...would be cheaper.
I have an old Nvidia MX2 in there now, and when I had hooked it up in the past with Svideo, it didn't look so good, plus that card won't even run the Gl screensavers decently, wasn't sure if a better card would help the picture.
If anyone has any advice, or anything of that nature, I would appreciate it. I realize some of the questions may be better dealt with on an A/V forum, but I don't like to join places, that I don't plan on hanging around.
Also sorry if this question should have been placed elsewhere on the forum, but I didn't know if it quite fit into the multimedia section, and I didn't think it belonged in Xorg.
Thanks, and hopefuly these questions arent to retarded. I keep finding info, but most of its dated years back...we'll except for the info on this forum.