Hi everyone, new guy here .
I just bought a new workstation system, and now I want to turn it into a quadruple head system; but I'm not sure what to buy, from a driver support perspective.
The monitors would be 3 Samsung 23" monitors (D-Sub) and 1 Samsung 20" monitor (D-Sub).
My architecture is AMD64 and I'm running FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE.
The system has an ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard.
As for my needs, I'm a software developer, and I rarely do any 3D work; thus, 2D acceleration would suffice, but some 3D support would be nice.
The motherboard comes with an on-board HD 4200 GPU and is CrossFireX capable.
So, I'd like to ask you guys for some advice, namely:
1) Can I make the setup work in the first place?
2) Do you know of any particular video card that is properly supported and isn't very expensive?
3) Which driver should I use?
4) Considering I'm running AMD64, would it still be possible to run the setup with 2 nVidia cards? (As far as I know there is no official driver for FreeBSD/AMD64).
Thanks for your time.
I just bought a new workstation system, and now I want to turn it into a quadruple head system; but I'm not sure what to buy, from a driver support perspective.
The monitors would be 3 Samsung 23" monitors (D-Sub) and 1 Samsung 20" monitor (D-Sub).
My architecture is AMD64 and I'm running FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE.
The system has an ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard.
As for my needs, I'm a software developer, and I rarely do any 3D work; thus, 2D acceleration would suffice, but some 3D support would be nice.
The motherboard comes with an on-board HD 4200 GPU and is CrossFireX capable.
So, I'd like to ask you guys for some advice, namely:
1) Can I make the setup work in the first place?
2) Do you know of any particular video card that is properly supported and isn't very expensive?
3) Which driver should I use?
4) Considering I'm running AMD64, would it still be possible to run the setup with 2 nVidia cards? (As far as I know there is no official driver for FreeBSD/AMD64).
Thanks for your time.