I need to install and check.
On Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:

>  Stephen, out of curiosity, what does your xrandr show as a max
> framebuffer size on your quadro?
>
> mb@host:~$ xrandr | grep maximum
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 11520 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
>
> This was a big limiter for me, in the past I couldn't figure out why my
> old ATI 5800 card with 6 ports wouldn't support a full, single framebuffer,
> but was internally limited to 8192x8192, with the 6xxx+ supporting
> 16384x16384.  Xorg wasn't too forthcoming with that info, and it was prior
> to xrandr support in their drivers, so totally left me scratching my head
> until escalating with AMD support to an engineer with a clue that told me
> that.
>
> With the advent of 4k displays, they still seem limited to that, which
> means I can only do 4x wide until vendors give to open that up.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/12/2015 03:55 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>
> Next time I have an absolute need to upgrade hardware, I plan on avoiding
> ati/amd at all costs.  After dealing with them for a good 5 years as the
> only real viable option to run my displays, only to be wrought with
> constant disappointment, problems, and frustration.  Buying highly
> overpriced quadro cards might be money well spent at this point, but I
> still despise nvidia that they're really little other than rebranded, and
> marked-up normal video cards with driver-locked (to bios-id) features.
>
> That said, going to set up some ebay agents to look for decent quadro's to
> snipe.  I had good luck getting my last few amd cards that way on the
> cheap, gotta love jbidwatcher for cheating some other person with a
> last-second bid.
>
> Thanks as always for the input Stephen.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/12/2015 03:20 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>  I have almost given up on ATI, if i want just multiple screens i would
> look into the Quadro NVS cards. Such as the NVS 510 or the K1200. They may
> be very proprietary to get running, but my success with Nvidia cards in
> both linux and windows really makes it worthwhile. These cards will only do
> a single monitor, but they are cheap enough to run 2 cards with reasonable
> usability. or one NVS and one more Gamer friendly card.
>
>
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